Unapplied knowledge benefited no one.
New tastes are like new ideas, young man – the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.
What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night?
I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.
I don’t talk to myself because I’m crazy.” “No?” “I do it because I’m awesome.
Would you like to destroy some evil today?
I’m sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.
They all want to be involved, but nobody wants to be responsible.
Your emotions are your own business.
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?
Tobias took the photograph. At least, that’s what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn’t feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It’s strange, the way the mind can change perception.
At his neck, hanging outside his clothing, Demoux wore a necklace that bore a small silver spear: the increasingly popular symbol of the Church of the Survivor. It seemed odd to her that the weapon that killed Kelsier would become the symbol of his followers.
The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing.
Prof’s ability makes mine look like a piece of rice. And not even a cooked one.
I will protect even those I hate,” Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. “So long as it is right.
You sent him to the sky to die, assassin,” Kaladin said, Stormlight puffing from his lips, “but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.
What is fact? What records did the church, in its misguided attempt to cleanse the past of perceived contradictions, rewrite to suit its preferred narrative?
Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.
Don’t worry that you aren’t giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.
You can’t always write what you know – not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.