Most people, they didn’t understand hats, and Wayne didn’t really blame them. Until you’d had a good, lucky hat, you wouldn’t understand the value of it.
Vin frowned. “You would gather stories about Kelsier?” “Of course,” Sazed said. “I collect all religions.” Vin snorted. “This is no religion we’re talking about, Sazed. This is Kelsier.” “I disagree. He is certainly a religious figure to the skaa.” “But, we knew him,” Vin said. “He was no prophet or god. He was just a man.” “So many of them are, I think,” Sazed said quietly.
They kill you with fear first and the sword second. Stand your ground.
They will try,” Jasnah said, “to define you by something you are not. Don’t let them. I can be a scholar, a woman, a historian, a Radiant. People will still try to classify me by the thing that makes me an outsider. They want, ironically, the thing I don’t do or believe to be the prime marker of my identity. I have always rejected that, and will continue to do so.
Syl was silent for a moment. “Do you want to be a miracle?” “No,” Kaladin whispered. “But for them, I will be.
Welcome to civilization. I trust you left your club and loincloth at the door. Let.
This far into the Unclaimed Hills, the highstorms were incredibly powerful. The plants had learned to survive. That’s what you had to do, learn to survive. Brace yourself, weather the storm.
At night, when all melted into a uniform blackness, Hrathen could almost see Elantris’s grandeur.
Never ask of your men a sacrifice you wouldn’t make yourself. Never make them fight in conditions you would refuse to fight in yourself. Never ask a man to perform an act you wouldn’t soil your own hands doing.
This is your heritage. The heritage of warriors who traveled the sky, and will return to the sky.
So warm. Comfortable. And strikingly unfamiliar. What was this peace? This place without fear?
What proof do we have? The words of men long dead, only now deemed divinatory?
I died down at that chasm. Now you’ve got my vengeful spirit to deal with.
No te preocupes si no das a la gente lo que quieren. Dale quien eres, y que eso sea suficiente.
That was always their mistake – assuming they knew why Shai did what she did.
She looked up at Sazed, who smiled at her. “Sometimes we just have to wait long enough, Mistress,” he said. “Then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing. There is a saying that Master Kelsier was fond of.
Now see, why must people be like this? If you have something to say, why not simply say it?
A man who speaks his mind is a man with mind to speak of.
People, they misunderstood the word “accent.” They thought accents were those things everybody else had.
I’m sorry, Mistress,” OreSeur whispered. “How long?” Vin asked, bowing her head. “Since you gave my predecessor – the real OreSeur – the dog’s body,” the kandra said. “I killed him that day and took his place, wearing the body of a dog. You never saw him as a wolfhound.