Expendable Quotes

“What if they take you captive?” Goradel asked.
“My dear man,” Breeze said, leaning forward to look out at Goradel. “That’s why kings send ambassadors. This way, if someone gets captured, the king is still safe. We, my friend, are something Elend can never be: expendable.”
Goradel frowned at that. “I don’t feel very expendable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“I need your skills, Inej. That's not the same thing. You may be the best spider crawling around the Barrel, but you're not the only one.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?”
― Bernadette Pajer, Fatal Induction

“You will never know what the prince is thinking behind his smiles,' Hyacinthe says. 'You are a coin to be spent, and he is a royal, used to throwing around gold.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“It's disgusting," Letty said. "Can you believe - I mean, a Babel graduate, and they just act like he was never here?"

Her distress belied a deeper terror, a terror which Robin felt as well, which was that Anthony had been expendable. That they were all expendable. That this tower - this place where they had for the first time found belonging - treasured and loved them when they were alive and useful but didn't, in fact, care about them at all. That they were, in the end, only vessels for the languages they spoke.

No one said that out loud. It came too close to breaking the spell.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel