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“Rysn, being cheated is a terrible feeling. Being cheated by someone you love is worse. Discovering such a deception is like finding yourself in a deep dark ocean with nothing around you but formless shadows of things you once thought you understood and enjoyed. It is painful beyond explanation. But that is never a reason to pretend it can’t happen. So read those contracts again. Just in case.”

“Todos los antecedentes históricos enseñan que la libertad de comercio y las demás libertades del dinero se parecen a la libertad de los países, tanto como Jack el Destripador se parecía a San Francisco de Asís.”

Corporate slop, but hey it’s homework.

“You cannot have my pain.”

“‘The question is not whether you will love, hurt, dream and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.’”

“This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. “

“Life was so much harder, but potentially so much more fulfilling, when you found the courage to choose.”

Getting into The Stormlight Archive is the best thing I have done as a reader in 2024.

“Taravangian is wrong,” the Stormfather said. “You are not a hypocrite, Son of Honor.”
“I am,” Dalinar said softly. “But sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”

OATHBRINGER - THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE III

“I must never be king.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that,” Gavilar said, looking back at the corpse. “Dalinar is nothing if not persuasive.”

This book is Dalinar-focused and I’m all here for it. Young Dalinar was a BEAST.