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“I can be incredibly boring.'
'That's not a weapon.'
'It might not be one in war, Tress,' he said, 'But in courtship? It is as fine a weapon as the sharpest rapier. You know how I go on. And on. And on.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
'That's not a weapon.'
'It might not be one in war, Tress,' he said, 'But in courtship? It is as fine a weapon as the sharpest rapier. You know how I go on. And on. And on.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“After living with the enemy,” I admitted, “I learned it wasn’t so simple. I didn’t discover that their cause was just, mind you. Only that most of them weren’t evil. They were merely people. Following, by accident, someone who was evil.”
― Cytonic
― Cytonic
“Tress thought maybe he was like her Aunt Glorf, who had always fought for the best deals at the market. She’d been afraid of looking silly by being taken advantage of. The guess was as wrong as ending a sentence with a preposition. But it worked anyway. Like ending a sentence with a preposition.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Eventually Dalinar had done what any good commander did when faced by such persistent mass insubordination: He backed down. When good men disobeyed, it was time to look at your orders.”
― Rhythm of War
― Rhythm of War
“It is more than calmness,” she clarified. “It is an utter rejection of all emotion, sensation, and individuality. You often start by fixating on something rhythmic, like your breathing or the deliberate stretching and relaxing of a muscle. Some find it helpful to vocalize a tone or a mantra. The goal is to empty your mind of all thought—abandoning even the initial focus that started the meditation.” “What’s the point of that?” She cocked her head, baffled. “To center yourself in the cosmere,” she said. “To wash your mind as you wash your body. To expel emotional refuse, as your body does with physical excrement. To be clean, down to your soul, and to renew.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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