Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.

I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart." -George to Alanna

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!