“You want me to lead the caravan?” “Instructions will be acceptable.” “All right. First, find a cliff.” “That, it will give you a vantage to see the area?” “No,” Kaladin said. “It will give me something to throw you off of.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal … well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.”
― Firefight
― Firefight
“Laugh when good things happen. Laugh when bad things happen. Laugh when life is so plain boring that you can’t find anything amusing about it beyond the fact that it’s so utterly unamusing.”
― The Scrivener's Bones
― The Scrivener's Bones
“The God King’s superiority was arbitrary, much like Lightsong’s divinity— both part of a grand game of make-believe. But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”
― Warbreaker
― Warbreaker
“Dressed in a white labcoat over jeans and a pink buttoned blouse, Liza was in her late fifties, and was tall enough that she was very tired of answering whether or not she’d played basketball in school. It was fortunate her clients were, for the most part, dead—as that was the only type of person who didn’t seem to bother her.”
― Skin Deep
― Skin Deep
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