Elizabeth

“I know what I’m doing,” he growled.
“If you knew what you were doing, we wouldn’t have two million zombie bunnies chasing us!” she shouted.
“Guys,” Daphne said, trying to get their attention, but her sister was too angry to listen.
“How was I supposed to know that kid was mentally unhinged?” Puck said.
“I don’t know,” Sabrina snapped. “Maybe when we found him running from a dead body?”
“Guys!” Daphne shouted.
“What!” Puck and Sabrina snapped.
“LOOK OUT!”
― Michael Buckley

“My point is that I am going to figure this out, like I always do. First, we’re going to find a way to get into Artemisia. We’re going to find Cress and rescue Cinder and Wolf. We’re going to overthrow Levana, and by the stars above, we are going to make Cinder a queen so she can pay us a lot of money from her royal coffers and we can all retire very rich and very alive, got it?"

Winter started to clap. "Brilliant speech. Such gumption and bravado."

"And yet strangely lacking in any sort of actual strategy," said Scarlet.

"Oh, good, I'm glad you noticed that too," said Iko. "I was worried my processor might be glitching.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“We’re so often the ones who sow the seeds of our own downfall.”
― Fumio Yamamoto, The Dilemmas of Working Women

“He did something so un-Pucklike, Sabrina couldn’t believe it. He got up sat behind her, and let his enormous fairy wings sprout from his back. Then he wrapped them around her to keep the bitter cold away. It was the first truly nice thing the so-called Trickster King had ever done for her.”
― Michael Buckley, The Problem Child