“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”

“That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.”

“The man was allergic to sleep.”

“Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.”

“Barking hard work, being a boy.”

“Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same."Barking spiders," she muttered softly,”

“And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.”

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”