Taylor

“Do you remember when we took that tame sport called swords and learned to kill with it, as the old volumes said men once had?”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“The real her was a bruised and sorry thing, painted up all pretty, but inside a horrid mess.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The old Thrill, the sense of battle, consumed him. It did not enrage him, as it did some men, but everything seemed to become clearer, crisper. His muscles moved easily; he breathed more deeply. He came alive.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“He seemed like a man who constantly had his teeth clenched, a man who couldn’t let himself—or anyone else—just sit down and take a nice rest.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance