They had survived, when so many had not. And no one ­else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much.

When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...

And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.

He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.

Aelin is alive.

There was such glittering darkness in her, an endless rift straight through her core

He'd known, since the moment he figured out who she was, that while Celaena would always pick him, Aelin would not.

She had awoken this morning and slipped the amethyst ring off her finger. It had felt liked a blessed release, a final shadow lifted from her heart.

She should not remember what it was like to be free.

Why bother? Maybe the world’s not worth saving.” She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes.

She wouldn't ask. Didn't want to know what manner of thing might crawl toward a fire.

If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes, if I'm with Fincher I'll do 50 - though the thought of that sounds horrible.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

Everybody says not enough people vote. Now, I don't know nothing, but after the midterms, pretty obvious to me, that too many people vote.