Colleen Markham

“I kissed him once," she whispered.
"Well done. What did he do?"
"Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“That letter was your whole future, you daft prince."
"It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going."
"We save each other. That's how it works.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

“He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

“Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath