I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.

Say something spiteful.”“Why?” she asked faintly.“Because I’m fairly certain I'm hallucinating and in my dreams you're much nicer.”“You're an idiot, Nikolai.

Her time is better spent with me. The thorn wood is a path you walk alone, boy king.”“But it’s a very arduous path,” Nikolai said. “Who will carry my snacks?

You've cheated death many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.

It’s a law of systems,” Wylan murmured. “You build in safeguards for failures, but something in the safeguards ends up causing an unforeseen failure.

Where are you going?" she called after me, her voice mocking. "What's waiting for you out there?" "Nothing!" I shouted at her. "No one!

Never underestimate the public's desire to get something for nothing.

If you aren't born with every advantage, you learn to tale chances.

You can't.t spend his money if you're dead.''I'll acquire expensive habits in the afterlife.