“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”

“Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?""Guns?" asked Jesper."Ships?" queried Inej."Bombs?" suggested Wylan. "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked a...”

“Wylan summoned every bit of bravado he'd learned from Nina, the will he'd learned from Matthias, the focus he'd studied in Kaz, the courage he'd learned from Inej, and the wild, reckless hope he'd ...”

“Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor.”

“If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.""Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?""Freedom, security, retribution.”

“He looked down at his boots. "That berth belongs to you too. It will always be there whenif you want to come back."Inej could not speak. Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for su...”

“When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. Thats the one worth listening to. ~ Miranda* ~”

“Trust what your instincts are telling you, it's your souls voice pointing you in the right direction.”

“Evere since I was first to read, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It wasn...”