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“I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor—your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.
“Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!”
There was a brief pause.
“In the end, they will kill us,” Elend said, voice loud, ringing in the cavern. “But first, they shall fear us!”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“He'd tell us to laugh more," Sazed whispered.
Breez chuckled. "He was completly insane, you know. The worse things got, the more he'd joke.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious."
Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Because most of us look at people and don't see those distortions. So we can't be hard on ourselves if we miss it. And maybe the key is to not look too closely because it's only when you do that you see the monster there.”
― Jennifer Niven