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Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.
I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.
You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
When men fought, they connected. You became brothers as you traded blows.
The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?
Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.
To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.
imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.
This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.
...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze
Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.
Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.
War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!
That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.
If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.
How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.
Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.
Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.
Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.
It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.
Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?