Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind.

Greed is your god, Kaz."He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.

And what god do you serve, then?”“Whichever will grant me good fortune.” “I don’t think gods work that way.” “I don’t think I care.

Close your eyes!""You can't kiss me from down there, Wylan." "Just do it!

I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship."i think so.

Van Eck raised a brow. "How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.

Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.

They fear as I once feared you, ” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina

She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in response. Instead, she spoke the truth. "If we make it out of here alive, I'm going to kiss you unconscious.

and the look they exchanged could have melted miles of northern ice.

Most of things in life are two way, like sometimes, there are tears of happiness too.

How devastating to find 'the one' and not be 'their one.

True humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you

Opportunity starts with a great education.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

All work and no pay makes a housewife.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].