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"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier
It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.
Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.
Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.
Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.
There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.
Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?
My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.
We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?
Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
What was that?" Galladon demanded. "I think I just destroyed the biology section" Raoden replied with wonder.
If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.
All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.
I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.
I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.
I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.
Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.
The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?
I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.
The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.
Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.
Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.
If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.
Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)
But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.
The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.
Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.