“This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.”

“There is no pain like the pain of transformation.”

“Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death.”

“Inej placed her hands on Ninas shoulders. Well see each other again.Of course we will. Youve saved my life. Ive saved yours.I think youre ahead on that count.No, I dont mean in the big ways. Ninas ...”

“Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.”

“Human courage was different from Amazon bravery. She saw that now. For all the suspicion and derision she'd heard from her mother and her sisters about the mortal world, Diana couldn't help but adm...”

“Shed shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone hed ever known. And if she was, then Grisha werent inheren...”

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Dont cry and dont rage. Understand.”

“The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted the...”