“Master Kosta…What a pleasure! Selendri tells me you’ve expressed an interest in getting killed.”

“My family was all about education, and me being there was a combination of my parents instilling in my sister and I that this was the ticket to wherever you want to go in life—education. And that’s what I tell my children: You’ve got to work now, play later. You’ve got to get to the place where when you’re a senior in high school, you’ve got choices; you’ve got to put in the work.”

“You’ve got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people.”

“Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.”

“Annabeth jogged towards us, giving me one of those annoyed expressions like, If you get yourself killed, I’m going to murder you.”

“Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.”

“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”

“What was I supposed to say?….. did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita”

“I have never heard you complain: "You promote me to be the future master of myself and the world, but you don't tell me how one is to be the master of oneself, and you don't tell me the mistakes in my thinking and my actions."”

“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.”