“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Those with the least always lose the most in war.”
― Before They Are Hanged
― Before They Are Hanged
“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
― Autobiography of Red
― Autobiography of Red
“Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
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