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“He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt!”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Children are not born with memories of those who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell their children of their hereditary hates, perhaps we would do better.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Dragons don't bother with introductions.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“His cracked lips moved.
Beloved.
He couldn't say the word, but I knew it.
And so did his Fool.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“To Fitz and the Fool.
My best friends for over twenty years.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Never do what you can’t undo until you’ve considered well what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Some say, ‘Who you are is what you do.’ They’re wrong, but not all wrong. What you do forms who you are. Then who you are forms what you do. It’s a vicious cycle, or a virtuous one, depending. One act doesn’t undo all of who you are, but a thousand acts make you who you are. So it’s simple, though not easy: stop creating the wrong you.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“If you’re trapped in the darkness all alone, how do you know you’re alone and not actually surrounded by an army of friends, also silent, also afraid in the dark, merely waiting for the sound of one voice to rouse them from fear, to fight for freedom?”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“When history calls your name, you raise your damn hand.”
― Brent Weeks

“That was the trouble of a consistency in moral affairs: holding yourself up to the measure you judge others by is three clicks past irritating.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“But given time, horror fades, and repetition makes what was unthinkable now normal; the monstrous is made manageable. For mankind adapts to every horror.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“Sinking into sarcasm is the heart’s last rebellion against a mind choosing helplessness.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“Kip had tasted honey that few in the history of the world had tasted: he’d had meaningful work, and friendship with titans; a great marriage to a strong, good, beautiful woman; and a father who’d been willing to die for him.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“Gunner? Captain? Let’s go find God. I’ll bring the sword, just in case He’s a dick.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“One can revere what one wishes to emulate. One can’t revere what one wishes to replace.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“Time makes a coward’s decisions for her.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“Why does everyone else always guess round numbers? They’re not any more likely.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“No one ever accomplished anything by being content with who they were, Shallan,” Adolin said. “We accomplish great things by reaching toward who we could become.” “As long as it’s what you want to become. Not what someone else thinks you should become.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“That’s because Wit is an asshole,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Some people charged toward the goal, running for all they had. Others stumbled. But it wasn't the speed that mattered. It was the direction they were going.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Kaladin’s anxiety began to subside, and he pushed through the worst of the darkness. He always emerged on the other side. Why was that so difficult to remember while in the middle of it?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“I know what you are,” Shallan whispered. “You’re the blankness upon my memories. The part of me that looks away. The part of my mind that protects me from my past.”

“Of course I am,” Veil said. “I’m your veil, Shallan.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Our weakness doesn’t make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong. For we had to carry it all these years.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Fine,” Navani said. “I hope when you die—knowing your homeland is doomed, your families enslaved, your queen executed—you feel satisfied knowing that at least you maintained a slight market advantage.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Why do we fight, Kal? Why do we keep going?” “I don’t know,” Kaladin whispered. “I’ve forgotten.” “It’s so we can be with each other.” “They all die, Tien. Everyone dies.” “So they do, don’t they?” “That means it doesn’t matter,” Kaladin said. “None of it matters.” “See, that’s the wrong way of looking at it.” Tien held him tighter. “Since we all go to the same place in the end, the moments we spent with each other are the only things that do matter. The times we helped each other.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“His entire life had been a futile effort to stop a storm by yelling at it. The storm didn't care.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“History is like that, always gobbling up the present.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“DON'T SPOIL STORIES!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War