“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”

“Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”

“Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.""Worse how?""Normal.”

“...that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”

“Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.”

“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.”

“maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore”