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.
I’m so storming pure I practically belch rainbows.
I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.
Honor is dead. But I’ll see what I can do.
A man is what he has a passion about,” Breeze said. ‘I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.
Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.
Breeze turned to look out the window. “You were always the best of us, Sazed,” he said quietly. “Because you believed in something.
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.
You can’t be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
Expectation wasn’t just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
Pain lost its power when other things became more important.
I seek the truth,” Shallan said. “Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That’s who I am.
It’s good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It will do you good to realize the price of fighting.
Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.
I trust you with their lives,′ Prof said, still writing, ’and them with yours. Don’t betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don’t just act because you can; act because it’s the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you’ll be all right.
The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.
I say that there is no role for women – there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.
You don’t have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences, if you must. But don’t pity me for my faith. And don’t presume that you’re better, just because you believe something different.
Can’t be any harder than sitting here and having a staring contest with mortality.