“Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“Progress is learning to control your world.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Words of Radiance
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Words of Radiance
“Beauty was out there, all around. To create art was not to capture it, but to participate in it.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
Carson’s 2025 Year in Books
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