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"...I would get what I wanted. I had power. I had wealth. But I didn't understand how little it was all worth until I lost the one thing that was most important to me. Now this is the only thing that remains of that good life, but I'm certain we will find new happiness here in Ba Sing Se. As long as we have hope, we can keep going." -Mushi (Iron) Pg. 73

"What does it... do? Does it have some sort of healing property?" -Jin
"Oh no. It's a message, a philosophical puzzle. An offer to reconsider my way of thinking, or else malleable wod may find itself becoming something hard and set in its way. Should our mindset shift to stone, or shall we be worn down to dust?" -Professor Om Pg. 64

“It’s a job that requires… discretion, so it comes with some risks.” -Xuan pg. 57

"I'm not joking. I have to somehow come up with that money to help someone who is very important to me. I wish I sent that rock into your thick skull instead, so you could understand that some of us have bigger concerns to worry about than winning ridiculous competition for bragging rights!" -Jin Pg.54-55

"Here's a tip: You should figure out where you belong... And stay there." -Jiang Pg. 48

“No one will ever ask a calligrapher to be on the front lines if there is to be war, Little Jin.” - Gong-gong pg. 41

“We all know they are the reason why no one is able to speak of the Fire Nation war. If you do, you might… disappear.” Pg. 32

“Show’s over! Go home now! Ba Sing Se is safe! You’re all safe here!” -the guards pg. 33

"A young earthbender must learn to control their power or else they might rip out something from building by accident and crush some innocent passerby." Pg. 48

"For people like us in the Lower Ring, everything has a cost." Pg. 37

"I'm not going to let them take the bakery. I have a plan." -Susu Pg. 36

"Did you hear what Mina heard from Lady Hao's house? The Avatar is in the city!" -Susu Pg. 24

Even if I came to Ba Sing Se unwillingly, sometimes I can admit to myself it's not so bad after all." Pg. 28

"The Lower Ring can be a harsh place sometimes, but there are many moments of loveliness too." Pg. 21

"If you don't pick up on these things quickly in the Lower Ring, then a few days of hungry bellies and empty pockets will teach you soon." Pg. 13

"...all of them trying to find work and establish themselves in this city. But we're not allowed to called them refugees. Not anymore. We're all "newcomers" here, because there isn't a war going on outside of these walls. In here, we are safe." Pg. 4

"For all Susu and I snipe and bicker at each other, I know that I am indebted to the Wens, to her, more than I am ever able to repay." Pg. 5

"This has been one hell of a long night. But I knew By then the truths of my trade as well as any trollhunter who'd answered the call. Long nights were just Part of the deal." Pg. 320

"Trollhunters are born for this, and to do what you are born for feels like nothing else in the world." Pg. 306

"So this is the story." Pg. 388

"From the open end of the pipe, clods of meat plopped like wet dog food into the open mouth of Gunmar the Black." Pg. 278

"...of course the Hungry Ones would position himself so as to relish the agony of those who died the most painful of deaths." -Blinky Pg. 274

"Bonds forged by war are one thing. Those formed by Love are something else." Pg. 268

"...it was the ending of that hurt one way or the other before it became something that could never be salved." Pg. 258

"I know the place, but we need to move." -Jack Pg. 254

"Monsters don't always look like monsters." -Claire Pg. 245

"Eighty-Eight Percent. Yeah." -Jim Pg. 238

"When we got home, I didn't think much of the light and sound coming from the TV." Pg. 231

"That evening we began to win." Pg. 227

"Not only was I no one, but I had no one- not Claire, not Tub, not Dad. The only path forward was to give myself fully to the night." Pg. 226

"However, it is a useful rage. He would not be the warrior he is without it. He knows this and has accepted it. A tragedy, to be sure, but a necessary one." -Blinky Pg. 216

"The gigantic ape-monster? In Grandma's house? You need to have your head X-rayed, kid." -Tub Pg. 210

"Jim, your sword. ARRRGH!!!, your claws. Blinky, you've got plenty of arms and there's plenty of scrap here, so find something pointy and get to it." -Jack Pg. 202