Atheism is not a disease, Your Majesty,” Jasnah said dryly. “It’s not as if I’ve caught a foot rash.
The truth is, most people who do what you’d call ‘wrong’ do it for what they call ‘right’ reasons.
Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.
And yet, any who know me will realize that there was no chance I would give up so easily. Once I find something to investigate, I become dogged in my pursuit.
Most Allomancers didn’t use whiskey in their metal vials. Most Allomancers were missing out on a perfect opportunity.
One can cut the body, and it will heal – but do it over and over again in the same spot, and you will scar.
You can’t put a price on a person’s life,” Kaladin.
He always watched and studied. He was a king – and you could not properly dominate that which you did not understand.
He was rambling. But, oddly, his mind felt clearer now than it had in weeks. Perhaps it was the clarity of perspective. Most men spent their entire lives wondering about the future. Well, his future was empty now.
The most important truths can always withstand a little examination.
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions “moral” after a fashion.
Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.
I could have traveled quickly. But all men have the same ultimate destination.
Every single thing in the city that we touch, see, feel, experience comes as the result of some person’s influence.
It’s interesting that the woman who wrote that treatise – the one you all practically worship in Alethkar –decided that all of the feminine tasks involve sitting around having fun while all the masculine ones involve finding someone to stick a spear in you. Telling, eh?
But things can’t stay the same – and that’s well, for when nothing changes in your life, it’s as good as being dead.
A few lessons, and you think you’re through? We’ve barely begun. You are still a fool, Elend Venture- you just don’t look like one anymore.
The life of a person is more than the chaos of it’s passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.
Humans have free will. Free will is the ability to make irrational decisions.
My lord. There is great importance to tea. It should never merely be ’whatever.