Skyward

“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that’s the case, then what does it matter whether the people in them actually lived?”

When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far

Bravery isn’t about what people call you, Spensa. It’s about who you know yourself to be.

And sometimes, the coward makes fools of wiser men

Yes you do. You have too much of it. Conflicting programs, none of it interfacing properly, all calling different functions at the same time—or the same function for contradictory reasons. Yet you ignore it sometimes. That is not a flaw. It is what makes you you.”

Brave to the end

. A leader needs to pull people after him, not push them before him.

Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher . . .

‘You can’t win if you don’t play,’ ”

if you were going to pick a fight, you should fight to win—and I had to respect that.