The strong lines of the woman’s face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?

Clothing doesn’t really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.

The world isn’t fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

I didn’t have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow?

Is good story.

No reason to force it.”All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch on her—wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me...

You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler.”Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I’m far more than just a...

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Err on the side of awesome.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

That’s the point, isn’t it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We’ll win in the end.

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened,...

It is a time of change,” Sazed said. ”Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one’s self, but all within one’s care.

Breeze strolled over to the table and chose a seat with his characteristic decorum. The portly man raised his dueling cane, pointing it at Ham. ‘I see that my period of intellectual respite has come...

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief – what is faith – if you don’t continue in it after failure ?

Words are where most change begins.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

What responsibility are you avoiding…He wasn’t avoiding responsibility…Though there was one thing he clung to. An excuse, perhaps, like the dead emperor. It was the soul of the wretch. Apathy. The belief that nothing was...

My other hand?’ Lopen said. ‘The one that was cut off long ago, eaten by a fearsome beast? It is making a rude gesture toward you right now. I thought you would want to know,...

Stop moping, sule,” galladon said with a grunt.”It doesn’t suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.

An easy life taught one very little.

It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can–what we...

I don’t want to make people mad. I just… well, how can people get better if you don’t tell them what you honestly think?

To think that Icouldn’t manage it on purpose if I wanted!

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen’s voice whispered. She ignored it.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like.

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards…Honestly, Kell, I’d nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be.”Foolhardy?” Kelsier asked with a laugh. “that wasn’t foolhardy – that was just a small diversion....

You aren’t what you think yourselves to be.

I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I’ve read about you; I’ve seen into your heart. I’ve rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn’t the same. It...

People today…it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.

then you haven’t been paying attention.

Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he raised his spear and threw himself off the end of the wooden platform, launching into the air above the...