“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― The Well of Ascension
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― The Well of Ascension
“The truth is, Rosemary, that you are capable of anything. Good or bad. You always have been, and you always will be. Given the right push, you, too, could do horrible things. That darkness exists within all of us. You think every soldier who picked up a cutter gun was a bad person? No. She was just doing what the soldier next to her was doing, who was doing what the soldier next to her was doing, and so on and so on. And I bet most of them — not all, but most — who made it through the war spent a long time after trying to understand what they’d done. Wondering how they ever could have done it in the first place. Wondering when killing became so comfortable.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
“All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
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