Imager isn’t set up yet,” Prof said. “So we’ll do this the old-fashioned way. Mizzy, you’re low man on the team roster. You get scribe duties.” She hopped up from her chair and actually seemed excited by the prospect. She took a marker and wrote Reckoner Super Plan for Killing Regalia at the top of the sheet. Each i was dotted with a heart.
This work I do, it’s about passion, Vin. It’s about dynamic events; it’s about change!
There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.
The water didn’t seem to have any scents or soaps applied to it, so Shallan raised the small basin and then took a long, slurping drink. “I washed my feet in that,” Adolin noted.
At least sit and listen. And stop looming like a mountain.
It was a fun job, wasn’t it? When you remember me, please remember that.
Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can – what we do that books cannot is interpret.
Epics have this habit of treating physics like something that happens to other people, like acne and debt.
She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this.
It wasn’t time for a show. It was time for a beating.
Amaram and Sadeas. Two men in Kaladin’s life who would, at some point, need to pay for the things they’d done.
He wanted to go. He hurt so much. He wanted it all to end, to go away. Everything. He just wanted it to stop.
Don’t stop. Don’t think. Drive forward and convince your enemies that they’re dead as good already.
Keeping him in here is like snuggling up to a bomb, content that it’s not going to explode simply because you can still hear it ticking.
Wayne was awakened quite rough-like, in a manner unbefitting his grand dreams, in which he was king of the dogs. Had a crown shaped like a bowl and everything. He blinked his eyes, feeling nice and warm, and got hit with a blast of air. Drowsy, he remembered he was flying in some kind of rusting airship with a fellow what had no face. And that was almost as good as that dog thing.
He moved like some ancient god of lore, presiding over a battlefield of miniature mortals who couldn’t see him, but certainly felt his almighty hand. Except, if Dennison was a god, his specialty certainly wasn’t war.
Wayne recognized him. The fellow had tried to shoot him, so Wayne had broken his arm with a dueling cane. Downright rude, trying to shoot like that. When a fellow pulls out a dueling cane, you should respond with one of your own – or at least a knife. Trying to shoot Wayne was like bringing dice to a card game. What was the world coming to?
He had a lump of crusty earwax for a heart.
Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red – you’d always be thinking, ‘Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.
As for being young,” I said, kneeling down, “yeah, I’m aware. Doesn’t mean I haven’t figured out a few things.