“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.”

“It's not just children who need heroes.”

“It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!”

“Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.”

“Scary with you is better than scary without you”

“Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”

“You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.”