“Do you love him?"Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

“Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.”

“Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.”

“No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.”

“Do you love him?Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. He makes me feel like that. Like flying.Then, you have to tell him.I told you, I kissed him!Its hardly the same. I kissed you, after all...”

“What if destiny doesn't care?”

“No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.”

“Smallness is subversive, because smallness can creep into smaller places and wreak transformation at the most vulnerable, cellular level. In a time when largeness is threatening to topple us, I wis...”

“He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.”

“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”