Sometimes, the answers we need don’t match the questions we’re asking.
You,” he said, “are amazing. Everything about my life has been planned out. Careful. It makes sense. I understand it. Then there’s you. You ignore my authority. You follow your feelings. You talk like some Valkyrie from a scudding ballad! I should hate you. And yet... ” He squeezed my shoulder. “And yet, when you fly, you are amazing. You’re so determined, so skillful, so passionate. You’re a fire, Spin. When everyone else is calm, you’re a burning bonfire. Beautiful, like a newly forged blade.” .
The sun peeked over the horizon like the head of a giant radioactive manatee.
Well, when the fear of death seizes you – when the dark thoughts come – you stare the darkness right back, and you tell it, ‘I will not listen to you, for I am infinite Batmans.
I hadn’t been fighting because of my father’s death. I fought because of his dreams.
I wasn’t complaining’, Pattern complained.
If there was a universal law regarding mankind, it was that they’d find a way to ferment anything, given time.
My other hand?′ Lopen said. ‘The one that was cut off long ago, eaten by a fearsome beast? It is making a rude gesture toward you right now. I thought you would want to know, so you can prepare to be insulted.
We must not cower in the dark because we’re afraid of the spark within us. The answer is not to put out the spark, but to learn to control it.
You should know by now that I’ve already had greatness. I traded it for mediocrity and some measure of sanity.
That’s what war is,” Cobb told me. “A bunch of sorry, desperate fools on both sides, just trying to stay alive. That’s the part that those stories you love leave out, isn’t it? It’s always more convenient when you can fight a dragon. Something you don’t have to worry you’ll start caring about.
If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.
My Megan is a sunrise, always changing, but beautiful the entire time.
No, freedom was not lack of responsibilities – it was being able to do what was right, without having to worry if it was also wrong.
I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I’ve read about you; I’ve seen into your heart. I’ve rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn’t the same. It isn’t knowing someone, is it? That’s knowing about someone.
There were books involved.
When you’re young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we’re all just the same kids wearing older bodies.
The two great constants of life. Food and death.
Storms, boy. What did you do? Hit a lighteyes?” “Yes,” Kaladin said. Then punched him.
Spectacles. They were kind of like a hat for smart people.