"We don't know if we can do it at all. I said we could try."
   —Po
Liesl and Po, by Lauren Oliver.

"Morrigan's night held only one possibility. Like every other child born precisely eleven years ago on the last Eventide, she would die—the eleven short years of her life complete; her curse finally fulfilled."
   —Narration
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow: Nevermoor Series, by Jessica Townsend.

"If we have the treasure, we run. If we don't, we also run."
   —Hako
Master of the Phantom Island: Dragonwatch, by Brandon Mull.