“People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.”

“Brothers always. Balthazar is with us too. We make this work,' Finnikin said fiercely. 'We bring peace to these kingdoms. We deserve it. Our women do. All of us have lost too much, Froi. We've lost the joy of being children. Let's not take that from Jasmina and Tariq and those who come after them”

“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”

“I think of those little sullen-faced Year Sevens back in high school and here are these people who have such a great spirit and so little.”

“Worse still, he doesn’t know how to follow the piper anymore because it’s a path Tom has lost faith in.And the piper knows it. Tom can see it in his father’s eyes now. And the more he stares, the clearer it becomes.”

“Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

“Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.”