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“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?鈥�
鈥淒umb luck,鈥� Wit said. 鈥淚n that I鈥檓 lucky you鈥檙e all so dumb.”
― Words of Radiance
鈥淒umb luck,鈥� Wit said. 鈥淚n that I鈥檓 lucky you鈥檙e all so dumb.”
― Words of Radiance

“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance

“What do you know?鈥�
鈥淎lmost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.鈥�
鈥淲hat do you want, then?鈥�
鈥淲hat I can鈥檛 have.鈥� Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. 鈥淪ame as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.”
― Words of Radiance
鈥淎lmost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.鈥�
鈥淲hat do you want, then?鈥�
鈥淲hat I can鈥檛 have.鈥� Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. 鈥淪ame as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.”
― Words of Radiance

“I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can鈥檛 do anything about it.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance

“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance

“Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that鈥檚 the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings

“For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance

“Some men, as they age, grow kinder. I am not one of those, for I have seen how the cosmere can mistreat the innocent - and that leaves me disinclined toward kindness. Some men, as they age, grow wiser. I am not one of those, for wisdom and I have always been at cross-purposes, and I have yet to learn the tongue in which she speaks. Some men, as they age, grow more cynical. I, fortunately, am not one of those. If I were, the very air would warp around me, sucking in all emotion, leaving only scorn.
Other men...other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.”
― Oathbringer
Other men...other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.”
― Oathbringer

“What you did tonight was clever,鈥� Wit said. 鈥淵ou turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance

“What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings

“I鈥檒l admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don鈥檛 agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in the wrong places.鈥�
鈥淚 suppose that you鈥檙e going to tell me where you think I should 濒辞辞办.鈥�
鈥淵ou鈥檒l find God in the same place you鈥檙e going to find salvation from this mess,鈥� Wit said. 鈥淚nside the hearts of men.鈥�
鈥淐uriously,鈥� Jasnah said, 鈥淚 believe I can actually agree with that, though I suspect for different reasons than you imply.”
― Words of Radiance
鈥淚 suppose that you鈥檙e going to tell me where you think I should 濒辞辞办.鈥�
鈥淵ou鈥檒l find God in the same place you鈥檙e going to find salvation from this mess,鈥� Wit said. 鈥淚nside the hearts of men.鈥�
鈥淐uriously,鈥� Jasnah said, 鈥淚 believe I can actually agree with that, though I suspect for different reasons than you imply.”
― Words of Radiance

“Yes, yes. Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don't know.”
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“I like to live every day like it's my last."
Shallan nodded.
"And by that I mean lying in a puddle of my own urine, calling for the nurse to bring me more pudding.”
― Oathbringer
Shallan nodded.
"And by that I mean lying in a puddle of my own urine, calling for the nurse to bring me more pudding.”
― Oathbringer

“Well, this isn't the part of the story where you ask questions. So kindly keep them to yourself.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea

“...Kaladin glanced over the pages. They had odd symbols on them, which made Kaladin nervous, but Wit insisted it wasn't actual writing. Merely marks on a paper representing sounds. It took Kaladin a few minutes to realize the joke.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth

“My true advantage has never been my uncommon intellect. It鈥檚 been my ability to find the right people and stick close to them.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Kald谋ramayaca臒谋 bir silah谋 olan 莽ocuktan korkmad谋臒谋m gibi, d眉艧眉nmeyen bir adam谋n akl谋ndan da asla korkmayaca臒谋m.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance

“Hey, Hoid. Can I catch a ride up there with you?鈥�
The new coachman shrugged, making room for Wayne on top of the carriage.”
― Shadows of Self
The new coachman shrugged, making room for Wayne on top of the carriage.”
― Shadows of Self

“Derethil and his men set sail, and though the winds were still, they rode the Wandersail around the whirlpool, using the momentum to spin them out and away from the islands. Long after they left, they could see the smoke rising from the ostensibly peaceful lands. They gathered on the deck, watching, and Derethil asked Nafti the reason for the terrible riots.鈥�
Hoid fell silent, letting his words rise with the strange smoke, lost to the night.
鈥淲ell?鈥� Kaladin demanded. 鈥淲hat was her response?鈥�
鈥淗olding a blanket around herself, staring with haunted eyes at her lands, she replied, 'Do you not see, Traveling One? If the emperor is dead, and has been all these years, then the murders we committed are not his responsibility. They are our own.”
― The Way of Kings (4 of 5)
Hoid fell silent, letting his words rise with the strange smoke, lost to the night.
鈥淲ell?鈥� Kaladin demanded. 鈥淲hat was her response?鈥�
鈥淗olding a blanket around herself, staring with haunted eyes at her lands, she replied, 'Do you not see, Traveling One? If the emperor is dead, and has been all these years, then the murders we committed are not his responsibility. They are our own.”
― The Way of Kings (4 of 5)

“Derethil and his men set sail, and though the winds were still, they rode the Wandersail around the whirlpool, using the momentum to spin them out and away from the islands. Long after they left, they could see the smoke rising from the ostensibly peaceful lands. They gathered on the deck, watching, and Derethil asked Nafti the reason for the terrible riots.鈥�
Hoid fell silent, letting his words rise with the strange smoke, lost to the night.
鈥淲ell?鈥� Kaladin demanded. 鈥淲hat was her response?鈥�
鈥淗olding a blanket around herself, staring with haunted eyes at her lands, she replied, 鈥楧o you not see, Traveling One? If the emperor is dead, and has been all these years, then the murders we committed are not his responsibility. They are our own.”
― The Way of Kings
Hoid fell silent, letting his words rise with the strange smoke, lost to the night.
鈥淲ell?鈥� Kaladin demanded. 鈥淲hat was her response?鈥�
鈥淗olding a blanket around herself, staring with haunted eyes at her lands, she replied, 鈥楧o you not see, Traveling One? If the emperor is dead, and has been all these years, then the murders we committed are not his responsibility. They are our own.”
― The Way of Kings

“Truth is, people are just as fluid as time is. We adapt to our situation like water in a strangely shaped jug, thought it might take us a little while to ooze into all the little nooks. Because we adapt, we sometimes don't recognize how twisted, uncomfortable, or downright wrong the container is we've been told to inhabit. We can keep going the way for a while. We can pretend to fit that jug, nooks and all. But the longer we do, the worse it gets. The more it weighs on us. The more exhausted we become. Even if we're doing nothing at all, because simply holding the shape can take all the effort in the world. More, if we want to make it look natural.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Oh, my lord, I know it, I do.鈥� The beggar laughed. 鈥淚 own the place, technically. Now, regarding those coins for old Hoid, my good lord鈥︹€� He pushed his hand forward farther, eyes staring sightlessly.”
― The Bands of Mourning
― The Bands of Mourning

“Hey, Hoid. Can I catch a ride up there with you?鈥�
"The new coachman shrugged, making room for Wayne on top of the carriage.”
― Shadows of Self
"The new coachman shrugged, making room for Wayne on top of the carriage.”
― Shadows of Self

“He'd dusted off his old beggar's costume - well, it was supposed to be dirty, so he'd more dusted onto it - for an appearance here and there. However, he wanted to be gainfully occupied. And stay close to some important, relevant people who tended to look poorly on someone who could fill a garden with good topsoil merely by shivering”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth

“Painful or passionate, surreal or sublime, we cherish those little rocks with the ever-smoothing touch of a recycled proxy living. In doing so, we make of our memories the gods in which we judge our current lives.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Yes, intellectuals and scholars are paid to think deep thoughts - but these thoughts are often owned by others. It is a great irony that society tend to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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