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.

Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.