“Listen,” Alex tells her, “royal weddings are trash, the princes who have royal weddings are trash, the imperialism that allows princes to exist at all is trash. It’s trash turtles all the way down.” “Is this your TED Talk?” June asks. “You
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“Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she’d picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she’d snuck in. And eaten their dinners.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance

“So … wait. You could survive all kinds of nasty murder, but you still…” “Get menstrual cramps?” Shallan said. “Yeah. Mother Cultivation can be hateful. I’m an all-powerful, Shardblade-wielding pseudo-immortal, but nature still sends a friendly reminder every now and then to tell me I should be getting around to having children.” “No mating,” Pattern buzzed softly on the wall.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer

“But we’re women!” “Yes,” Jasnah said lightly. “Spren don’t suffer from human society’s prejudices. Refreshing, wouldn’t you say?”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance

“It knocked Cytherea clean through the wall. The wall was already feeling pretty sorry for itself, and at this last insult it gave up entirely and collapsed, with a terrific rumble and crash of rock and brick and bursting glass slumping outward onto the garden terrace.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth

“If there is a god, then I think we could find him in the way we care about one another.”
― Rhythm of War
― Rhythm of War
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