Filip

“I need to know about Yomen, the obligator king.”
“He’s a good man.”
Vin frowned.
“Oh,” Slowswift said. “You didn’t expect that? Everyone who is your enemy must also be an evil person?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“You act as if I were your enemy.
“You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.”
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?
“There is no need to hasten that end,” Vin said. “No reason to force it.”
All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch on her—wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?
Vin fell silent.
Do not mourn because the day of this world’s end has arrived, Ruin said. That end was ordained the very day of the world’s conception. There is a beauty in death—the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.
For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Immortality, power, dominance, all are illusions. Don’t you see? We are simply pawns in a game beyond our understanding.’ Pug”
― Raymond E. Feist, A Darkness At Sethanon

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea