Where are you going?" she called after me, her voice mocking. "What's waiting for you out there?" "Nothing!" I shouted at her. "No one!

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.

I’d learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see.

Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you.

The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

Today is elections day and I am stepping out to help write a chapter that will form a part of my unborn children's history exam in the future.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to survive.

this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.

Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.