“Dont tell me youre afraid of heights, she said, shimmying along the edge.Not heights, he murmured. Just falling.”

“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.”

“I am Sunai, he said. I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.”

“Sing you a song and steal your soul.”

“Listen to me, he said, pulling off his coat. You need to stay awake.She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. Whats so funny?Youre a really ...”

“There are no monsters in the dark.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”

“Toxic people sell you short. When you listen to them, you give them power, thats when you sell yourself short.”

“Theb word and the n word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.”

“The saints have to drink poison (worldly suffering) and the world has to drink nectar (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak.”