"She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the others. “You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person ..."
- Michelle O'Leary
"What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell ..."
- Sharon K. Garner
"Listen up, Nic," she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. "If you die on me out here, so help me I'll hold seances and pester you. I won't give you a moment's peace in the hereafter,..."
"No one can stop death, Omari. It is normal and certain. And nothing should get in the way of a person’s true destiny."
- Stephen Whitfield
"What you must do,” she continued, “you will. Your mission will be as clear to you and as demanding as your heartbeat. Everything else is just a waste of your time."
"She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need."
- Natalie J. Damschroder
"Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things."
"Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose."
- Donna Thorland