The Raptor Quotes

"We meet fear, he’d said. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen."

"She was Inej Ghafa, and she would not quiver like a rabbit in a snare."

"But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway."

“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

"His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he’d let them overflow and now there wasn’t a damn place in the ocean that wouldn’t catch fire if he dropped a match."

“I would come for you,” he said, and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. “I would come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together—knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”

“Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”

"Change comes when people want it enough, Mr. Baker."

"—remove our comforts, and we become animals."

"Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on walls that will not give. More importantly, don’t shove where a pat would be sufficient."

"Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be kind in a world as cruel as ours."

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”

"Anger makes you tired, but guilt keeps you from falling asleep."

"People always love people more when they’re dead."

"The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand."

"We are all someone’s monster, Nina."

"When you already feel like everything about you makes you stand out, it just makes more sense to find as many ways to blend in as you can."