We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.

See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.