Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.