You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness. You're letting shame decide who you are.

Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that […]. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor.

Nina was about to snap that she didn't appreciate the sarcasm when she saw the expression on his face. He looked like someone had just given him a tuba full of puppies.

If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.""Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?""Freedom, security, retribution.

Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain.

You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.

She rested her head on his shoulder. "You're better than waffles, Matthias Helvar." A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips. "Let's not say things we don't mean, my love.

Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.

I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.""Nina, " he said, pressing her hand to his heart. "I am already home.

Sometimes what may appear as unfair, may actually be a huge favor from the Universe, pushing you in the right direction to live your dreams.

Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than aboutcomforting the people they leave behind.

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.

Report me and my cause aright.

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.