“They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.”

“I am the shadow of the flame.”

“You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.”

“Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.”

“For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.”

“So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.”

“The war never leaves.”

“Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created p...”

“She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.”

“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there w...”