Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

I wish people would stop hitting Po," whispered Bitterblue. "Well," Giddon said. "Yes. I'm hoping Skye is following my model. Punch Po; go on a long trip; feel better; come back and make up.

Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)

And what was it about the dark that made her question things she’d never questioned before, in the day.

I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place.