I believe I can actually agree with that, though I suspect for different reasons than you imply.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

It is beautiful because it could have been. It should have been.

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

I wish I cared enough to apologize,” Elend said, staring at them.

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken. Then she smiled. Oh,...

This is insanity!””No, this is scholarship!

By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for...

Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

What a pair they were – a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

Exactly,” Lightsong said, “I’ve actually considered expanding the theory. I am now proposing to believe that God-or the universe, or time, or whatever you think controls all of this-is all really just a drunk monkey.”She...

… and then I jumped out the window

Because sometimes, you need to help the heroes along.

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing,...

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save...

Has no one done my son a service and assassinated you yet?” “No assassins yet,” Wit said, amused. “I guess I’ve already got too much ass sass of my own.”…”Oh really, Wit” she said. “I...

You’re fighting it already, Goodman Mennis. You’re just losing horribly.

The rest of the time, I don’t do so much thinkin’. ‘Cuz if I did, I’d go running back to where things is simple. You see?

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy’s face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather...

This lot won’t suffer you forever.I wouldn’t see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within you Wit.””Yes, He tasted quite delicious.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

People don’t read anymore. And, when they do, they don’t read books like this one, but instead read books that depress them, because those books are seen as important. Somehow, the Librarians have successfully managed...

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

I am rather exceptional in that regard.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours.”Ranette: “Your mansion isn’t safe?”Wax: “My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off...

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.–Egwene al’Vere

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world...

Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.”You’re like a potato!” I shouted after her. “In a minefield.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.

I’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

…A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

Oh, and one thing. Please, please don’t depend on me too much. I mean that. I’m not going to be of much help. If your plots come to a head—if things go wrong at the...

Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?””I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation,” he said.”She is a heretic.””She refused to join any of the...

Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in...

[Deserters], they’ve given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you’ve already given away everything you could have cared about losing.

This is a lot more satisfying,” he said, “when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity.”The ugly lizard-crab-thing on the next rock over clicked its claw,...

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its...

Elend, my dearest Elend who brings a pile of books to each ball he attends and ignores everybody in favour of having a nice read. Elend who has to grow up rather suddenly in the...

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Oh my lovely princess,”Raoden whispered. “You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them.”-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.