Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

Outside the Weirwall, Jack could hear the thud of bodies colliding and the cries of the wounded. It seemed like a lot of noise. Even given the fact that Ellen was involved. "Why'd she go out there?" Jack demanded. "Why didn't you stop her?" Brooks spat on the ground. "Have you ever tried to stop Captain Stephenson from anythin'?

Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.