“Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!”

“then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long time. It was as if they were dancing. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance.”

“Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.”

“It is a fine line to walk when teaching someone that life is both beautiful and dangerous, to open up to the world as well as be on guard.”

“I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they’re two sides of the same coin.”

“But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.”