“She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.”

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”

“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

“She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.”

“Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.”

“She dhresses herself to keep him with her, but it's no use – afther a month or two, th'wondher of a woman wears off.”

“Tante Isabelle says it’s better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you’ll fly before you fall.”

“… though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.”

“Sister ectoplasma she's incredulous
Just like a pro she takes off her dress
And she kicks you down in her snow white pumps
Just remember it was me who found the lumps”

“The candlelight dances off her mahogany-coloured skin as she un-robes, and she is smiling from the very middle of herself, and you look at them and you think "This is the one, this is it" and then—and then the cage comes down!”