Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

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

She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

You've been nipping at cook's wine!!

Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No — if she bit him, he'd die.

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.