He’s grown into quite the young man since you took him in.””You say that like being a man’s a good thing,” Nyx said.

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

It’s a good thing I’m perfect, then.

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

Most people who watch a fight think it’s all about the muscle: hitting harder, moving faster. And, yeah, sometimes it looked that way. But telling somebody that you won a fight by hitting the other...

We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.

Just keep in mind,” Liaro said, “they’re not going to remember the words. They’ll remember how you made them feel. Make them feel something.

Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.

That was a very formidable woman,” Caisa said.”I seem to know a good many of those.””And you have a terrible habit of angering them,” she said.

You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.

And there is good money to be made when things are bad.

It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

You never look that close unless it’s one or the other.

It was men, not God, who had done those things…

Humanity is a monster you can never kill.

She wanted to build a better world. So why did so many others want to keep it just the same?

Everything hurt. It meant she was alive.

Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away,” Nyx said.

I’m not going to tell you how to start a bug-powered vehicle, I’m just going to put you inside one with somebody who knows how, and send you off on a ride.