"Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you're taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward."

"It doesn't matter who she was. It matters who she can become."

"Stop. Stop trying to make the illusion of strength. You don't need it. Not here. Not now. Let yourself be sad until the real strength returns."

"At least if I am to die, then it would be as someone I can look in the mirror."

"There was something severed and rough about her, something tainted and, yet, at the same time those jagged pieces were the makings of something fearsome. She'd wanted to become someone the Senate would fear, why not shatter the sky?"

"She no longer longed to be anyone more or less than who she was."