“Scary with you is better than scary without you”

“You look as scary as a buttered muffin.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.”