“Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.”

“What if destiny doesn't care?”

“Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.”

“It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.”

“Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”

“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...”

“Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?""Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.”