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What was better – a constant safeness that never grew and never changed, or a life of reaching, building, striving, even though you knew you’d never be completely satisfied?
“I am human,” the large beast said quietly.”
― Mistborn Trilogy
― Mistborn Trilogy
“The history of human civilization is the history of what was considered the magical and mystical slowly but surely being explained. The moon turning into cheese seems magical and mystical to me. But maybe if a human from ten thousand years in the future came back in time, they could explain it to me, and I could understand it.”
― When the Moon Hits Your Eye
― When the Moon Hits Your Eye
“The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“What was better – a constant safeness that never grew and never changed, or a life of reaching, building, striving, even though you knew you’d never be completely satisfied?”
― Record of a Spaceborn Few
― Record of a Spaceborn Few
“Murder?” Pattern said, placing another soldier. He’d built a surprisingly tall pyramid. “Oh, you mean murder! Shallan is good at murder. Yes, mmmmm…” “Pattern,” she said, “please don’t say it that way.” “She is good,” Pattern corrected himself, “at making people who were once alive and threatening, unalive and unthreatening. Mmmm. Very good at it.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
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