Hope crawls inside and nestles deep, a tumour growing inside a person's heart. It convinces you to trust to that most inane concept, luck. Hope is the denial of reason, the willingness to blind oneself to the truth no matter how obvious. I
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“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
“The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
― 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
“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.”
― Mistborn Trilogy
― Mistborn Trilogy
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