Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.

Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.