Stebes

“I know, Tojin,” Yumi said. “But he loves you all still; I can see it in him. He cannot change what he did, but he is a good person, trying very hard. You don’t have to forget what he did. But did you ever think that maybe instead of constant wisecracks and snark you could simply…try to understand? On that day, when he was rejected from the Dreamwatch, Painter lost everything. Every hope, every dream. He lost his love of what he did. But I think losing you as his friends was the worst of all.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Loneliness, even in a group. Shame and its stalwart companion: those whispers that say you aren’t worthy of attention or love. He understood. Without needing to touch her, he understood.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us to the Golds, to the Society.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“And yesterday he would have killed me to get at his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”
― Terry Goodkind, Stone Of Tears