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The need to call this thing “good” and this thing “bad,” this thing “white” and this thing “black,” was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.
“I’m broken.” “Who isn’t? Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“They kill with fear first and the sword second. Stand your ground.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“We can never know another man’s heart, Brightness Sylphrena, but we all know what it is to live and have pain.”
― Rhythm of War
― Rhythm of War
“A woman’s strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point,”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“Time was a funny thing. It was always flowing along in the background like a river, but bring too much power to bear, and it warped. It slowed; it wanted to pause and take a look. Anytime too much power—too much Investiture, too much self—congregated, realms became porous and time behaved oddly.”
― Rhythm of War
― Rhythm of War
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