Sometimes, Kelsier felt that a skaa Misting’s life wasn’t so much about surviving as it was about picking the right time to die.
He wasn’t broken. All of them were broken.
Well, I like sincere people,” Shallan said, raising her cup. “It’s delightful how surprised they look when you push them down the stairs.
Integrity doesn’t stop men from killing, Brightness,” Sebarial said. “It just makes them use different justifications.
Aluminum,” she explained as Rysn peered inside. “It blocks spanreed communication, something we only recently discovered.
I suggested she write down her thoughts” He said, “... and, well, my daughter is a very thorough woman.” “I can see that.” Waxillium said. “I suggest that you never ask her to pass the milk” Wayne added under his breath, so only Waxillium could hear “She seems likely to throw a cow at you just to be certain the job is done thoroughly.
Brightness Sylphrena. No man can judge another man’s heart or trials, for no man can truly know them.
That was the thing about omens – they were made up. Imagined signals of something nebulous. So why not make them up to be something positive?
I told you that if you are going to do something, son. You need to do it with all of your heart. You have something you didn’t have before. Hope. You’ve defeated one of them. They can be beaten.
Just an idle comment, nothing more... My comments are often idle. I never can get them to do any solid work.
These people seek to control the knowledge so that they can profit from it. Profit from the apocalypse itself.
Love, you’re deliciously weird sometimes.” “The rest of the time, I’m just tastelessly weird.” She held up the carafe. “Drink. It’s for science.
But the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.
It’s hard sometimes,” Noril said, stirring. “Coming awake means leaving the nothingness, you know? Remembering the pain. But then I think, ‘Well, he gets up’.
He’s got the emptiness, bad as I do. I can see it in him. We all can. But he gets up anyway. We’re trapped in here, and we all want to do something to help. We can’t, but somehow he can.
But then, he’s a Smedry. That’s virtually a synonym for “insane, foolhardy lunatic.
Where’s your sense of adventure?” “I dragged it out back and clubbed it senseless for getting me into the army.
But you can’t be amazed at the convergent examples of domestication across the cosmere. You can’t know any of this, because you live on a giant ball of rock full of slime where everything is wet and cold all the time. This is a dog, Kaladin. They’re fluffy and loyal and wonderful.
I’m fully aware that so much of me is difficult for any one woman to handle. My majesty confuses them. It’s the only explanation for why they often run away.
Yes,” I said. “Those things enslaved my people for decades! I wouldn’t think you’d set them loose on the galaxy.” “This human is very well trained,” the official said.