Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

She couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.

Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.