The man had come looking for a magical solution to his woes, but he had found an answer much more simple. Pain lost its power when other things became more important.
It has been my experience that most problems in life are caused by a lack of information. Many people just don’t know the things they need to know. Some ignore the truth; others never understand it.
The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.
He smiled. The ability to drink and not grow drunk – an advantage of pewter that nobody had told him about. There had to be a way to use such a skill.
He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he’d succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.
My lack of capacity doesn’t change the kingdom’s needs.
I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid.
All things have a soul. A vase, a wall, a chair. And when a vase is broken, it might die in the physical realm, but for a time its soul remembers what it was. So all things die twice. Its final death is when men forget it was a vase, and only think of the pieces. I imagine the vase floating away then, its form dissolving into the nothingness.
Good lad. You did well, Spook. I’m proud.
Jasnah preferred to work alone, which was odd, considering how good she was at getting people to do what she wanted. Navani liked groups – but of course, Navani wasn’t a scholar. Oh, she knew how to pretend. But all she really did was nudge here and there, perhaps provide an idea. Others did all the real engineering.
What would they think if they knew that their champion – the Hero of Ages, their savior – doubted himself? Perhaps they wouldn’t be shocked at all. In a way, this is what worries me most. Maybe, in their hearts, they wonder – just as I do. When they see me, do they see a liar?
They don’t see losing a third of the city as a disaster – they see saving two-thirds of it as a miracle.
To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.
The Superiority has a lot of graphic designers and animators,” Morriumur said. “It’s one of the most common professions chosen by those who wish to work beyond basic subsistence.
Humans don’t have programming.” “Yes you do. You have too much of it. Conflicting programs, none of it interfacing properly, all calling different functions at the same time – or the same function for contradictory reasons. Yet you ignore it sometimes. That is not a flaw. It is what makes you you.
I know that many women who read this will see it only as further proof that I am the godless heretic everyone claims. – From Oathbringer, preface.
This is going to be about zombies. I’m calling it now.
She didn’t see death, she saw life. She saw faith.
She had spent months as a knife, held immobile at someone’s throat. It was time to cut.
Being in charge isn’t about doing anything – it’s about making certain that other people do what they’re supposed to! Delegation, my friend. Without it, we would have to bake our own bread and dig our own latrines!