“And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?”

“You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane”

“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.”

“Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. ”

“She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.”

“That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.”

“Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.”