“To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

“Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, here are a few things you should know:1) Women have feelings.2) You will spend the next seventy years or so trying to guess what they're feeling and why.3) You will be wrong most of the time.4) I like French Fries.”

“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.”

“Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.”

“For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me.Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.”

“Everyone is either happy or dead.”

“You know, Ham," Breeze noted. "The only funny thing about your jokes is how often they lack any humor whatsoever.”