“And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.”

“That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.”

“That letter was your whole future, you daft prince.""It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going.""We save each other. That's how it works.”

“You're a bum-rag covered in clart!”

“It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”

“Face it, Tally-wa, you're special”

“Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.”