“What if destiny doesn't care?”

“Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do.”

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

“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.”

“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.”