“Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
“In the last, lorn fight
'gainst the fall of long night,
the mountains stand guard,
and dead shall be ward,
for the grave is no bar to my call.”
― The Eye of the World
'gainst the fall of long night,
the mountains stand guard,
and dead shall be ward,
for the grave is no bar to my call.”
― The Eye of the World
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”
― Oathbringer
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”
― Oathbringer
“Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king […] White to be bold. White to not blend into the night. White to give warning. For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
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