Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle

We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we? - Sandry after the pirate attack