Benedict

“You think that kid who starved didn’t want to eat? You think her parents didn’t want to escape the ravages of war badly enough? You think if they’d had more Passion, the cosmere would have saved them? How convenient to believe that people are poor because they didn’t care enough about being rich. That they just didn’t pray hard enough. So convenient to make suffering their own fault, rather than life being unfair and birth mattering more than aptitude. Or storming Passion.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“And so, in the face of the most awful darkness he’d ever felt, Kaladin Stormblessed took a deep breath.
Then stood up.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“The most positive thing the Chinese authorities could say about the Americans was that they weren't the British.”
― Andrew Coe

“There will always be cruel people, no matter what kind of system we're living under. I'm not letting them stop me from wanting better for the rest of us.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant