"Do you answer a question directly?""Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again"

"Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?""Guns?" asked Jesper."Ships?" queried Inej."Bombs?" suggested Wylan. "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered."

"What is she to you anyway?""Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch."

"They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that."

"They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea."

"The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever."

"I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story."

"I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him."

"Do you answer a question directly?""Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again"

"Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?""Guns?" asked Jesper."Ships?" queried Inej."Bombs?" suggested Wylan. "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered."

"What is she to you anyway?""Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch."

"They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that."

"They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea."

"The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever."

"I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story."

"I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him."

"Do you answer a question directly?""Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again"

"Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?""Guns?" asked Jesper."Ships?" queried Inej."Bombs?" suggested Wylan. "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered."

"What is she to you anyway?""Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch."

"They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that."

"They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea."

"The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever."