‘History is not the story of battles between right and wrong, but between one man’s right and another’s. Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man’s notion of good when it differs from ours.’
“The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Don’t worry that you aren’t giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.”
― Mistborn Trilogy
― Mistborn Trilogy
“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.”
― Mistborn Trilogy
― Mistborn Trilogy
“You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
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