Charles Marshall

“An oath could be broken, but a promise? A promise stood as long as you were still trying. A promise understood that sometimes your best wasn’t enough. A promise cried with you when all went to Damnation. A promise came to help when you could barely stand. Because a promise knew that sometimes, being there was all you could offer.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“You have to practice it day after day, even when your mind doesn’t want to. Especially when it feels like it’s too hard. Learning to resist your own mind is difficult, Szeth.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“He had mistakenly assumed that liking something soft would make him soft. A common failing among men who wished to appear strong. It was not weakness to relax. By being so afraid of it, they gave simple things power over them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“Ideals are dead things,” Kaladin said, “unless they have people behind them. Laws exist not for themselves, but for those they serve.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth