Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

It’s better to be individual than a clone of someone else.

Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.

Molly: So how do you think of Bryce Hamilton crowd so far? Boys hot enough for you? Bethany: I wouldn't say hot. Most of them seem to have a normal body temperature.

Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

Innovation got hip. It got cool. I prefer the people who investigate the world out a brute sense of curiosity, a fundamental sense of play.

No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.

Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.