For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?

I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood