B Machine

“You were supposed to burn prayers to send them to the Almighty, who waited for his Heralds to recapture the Tranquiline Halls. That had never made sense to Kaladin. The Almighty was supposed to be able to see all and know all. So why did he need a prayer burned before he would do anything?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (3 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Was that not how you loved someone? By hammering your body into whatever shape they liked best, and handing yourself to them like a hilt?”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“There is honor in loss . . . if that loss brings learning.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (4 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Laggart was not a smart man. True, the things he lectured people on could fill a dictionary—but what he actually knew would barely fill a postcard. That said, he wasn’t an idiot either. He settled somewhere between smart and stupid, perched on the very peak of the bell curve and assuming that it was the right place to be, as highest has to be best.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea