Dangling form the trap's steel teeth by his wounded leg, a lesser creature might have closed his eyes and prayed for nothing more than a quick death. But if Koja had words then he had hope.
I believe ... I believe that if there was a start to this, then there has to be an end.
There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?” I shook my head, inching away from him. “Faith,” he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith.
And what god do you serve, then?” “Whichever will grant me good fortune.” “I don’t think gods work that way.” “I don’t think I care.
You cannot worry about what came before or what happens next, what has been lost or what you might gain. There is only this moment.
Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart.
To live is to grieve.
Women don't want to be seduced. They want to be seen and listened to. You can't do either of those things if you're thinking up strategies on how to win her over.
We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.
Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that […]. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)
Danny spent most of his time at the museum or in his room with the door locked, lost in books he consumed like a flame eating air, trying to stay alight.
“You don’t look like a monster.” “I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.”
Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.
I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.
Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.
“Greed is your god, Kaz." He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”
Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.
Better terrible truths than kind lies.
“Our hopes rest with you, Mister Brekker. If you fail, all the world will suffer for it." "Oh, it's worse than that, Van Eck. If I fail, I don't get paid.”
Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.
