“I would have 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 d...”

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”

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

“This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.”

“A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new.”

“But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.”

“Dangling form the trap's steel teeth by his wounded leg, a lesser creature might have closed his eyes and prayed for nothing more than a quick death. But if Koja had words then he had hope.”

“For the briefest moment, Ulla despised Signy, as we can only hate those who rescue us from loneliness.”