“Truth doesn’t set you free, it shifts your world into something else entirely until you’re back to this: Who am I now that I know who I should be?”

“If the wind is favorable, I shall set off tomorrow...I am hazarding my life, that I may incommode your affairs..If I die, believe that you will lose a person who has never been other than entirely yours, and who by her affection has deserved that you should not forget her”

“Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!”

“You’re seventeen. You’re supposed to be dealing with school and hormones and dim-witted parents. You’re supposed to be finding out who you are as a person.”“But I already know who I am,” Valkyrie said. “I’m a world-breaker.”

“Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.”

“I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.”