“It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”

“I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

“But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face; when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side.”

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”