Jacob Brigdon

“You told me it would get worse.” “It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Elend tried to tell himself it was only her injury, but he sensed something deeper. Something in the way she looked at him, something in the way she reacted to his affection. And despite himself, he could think of only one thing that had changed. He was no longer king. Vin was not shallow. She had shown him nothing but devotion and love during their year and a half together. Yet how could she not react—even if unconsciously—to his colossal failure?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“What is man, that he should outlive his god?”
― Poul Anderson, Tau Zero