“Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.”

“Real strength is not how much you lift, it is what you can let go of.”

“You guys are weird," Tori said.
Simon sat on the crate beside me. "That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.”

“Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.”

“It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”

“Don’t let your newfound title worry you. Having lived among goblins and their backstabbing, treacherous ways, you’re far better prepared for politics than most.”

“Coke is pure kick. It lifts you straight up, a mechanical lift that starts leaving you as soon as you feel it”

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

“That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.”

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”