Alex Simonides

“I think people make themselves beautiful. I think everything on our outside is a line sketch, and whatever’s on the inside blows those lines into three dimensions.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Snapping is an Allomantic term. Our powers are latent at first—they only come out after some traumatic event. Something intense—something almost deadly. The philosophers say that a man can’t command the metals until he has seen death and rejected it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“Sense, Odium. The only kind I have is nonsense. Well, and some cents, but cents are nonsense here too—so we can ignore them. Scents are mine aplenty, and you never cared for the ones I present. So instead, the sense that matters is the sense Dalinar sensibly sent you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Her eyes went wide, an oil spill of mascara”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun