Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

Beautiful is dangerous.

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.