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“They slaughter all deemed not valuable enough to be carted off. Which means all of the men, for theirs is not a world that considers that your men might weave, that they might be the only ones who practice a particularly sophisticated courtship stitch used to woo future brides. This knowledge is ripped from the seam of the world forever in a moonrise.”

I really do adore Dalila

Vasher interlude YUM

“Colorful ribbons, tied around his wrists and extending out through the plate, began moving of their own accord. They spiraled outward around his fist, and became like blades themselves, after the Stoneward art.”
Hey what awakener is on this battlefield ???

“An inquisitive mind did not stop asking questions just because it found answers.”

“I have stayed upon my land, bringing blessings to the people of Nalthis, gifting them the power of gods as I was so long denied. I do not repeat the mistakes of the past.”

“I do not feel brave. I am not the center of this symphony. No one even cares I’m here.
Where is the immortal majesty the poets promised me? Where is the stern will my ancestors preached to their children?
It was just an illusion conjured by fools who never left their libraries, or by agents of necessity.
This is the Noble Lie.”

“‘Would it be alright,’ the Emperor asked softly, ‘if I asked you to call me by my name?’ He met Adolin’s eyes. ‘It will give the viziers heart attacks, though. I don’t want to cause you trouble.’
‘Yanagawn,’ Adolin said, dealing the cards, ‘I’ve been breaking the hearts of scribes since I was fourteen. I’ll manage.’”

Interested if there’s any connection between Shin simplicity / lack of color and Idrian sensibilities?

“I loved my godfather, despite his deeds. Whether that is evidence of a personal failing or a moral imperative to love those who were kind to one as a child, I may never know.”

“‘I mean I died inside. I was totally helpless. I didn’t control my body anymore and my body didn’t control my world anymore.’
She said, ‘That must have been a horrible experience for you.’
He replied, ‘It was the most precious experience of my life. I tasted death, and I tasted the sweet tang of life, and now I can see.’”

“He convinced the single stone rooftop that it was instead made up of many, many stones; tiny ones, barely connected. He opened his eyes.
‘Did you do something?’ Kaladin asked.
In response, Szeth punched his hand through the rooftop, and a circular section five feet wide disintegrated into powder.”
This is so similar to what Shai does with her soul stamps !!!!

Renarin has never been more of a Regulus varient than right now

“Libby once said of Eva, ‘She’s a little piece of God. She’s broken off of God and fallen to earth. That’s why she’s broken.’ Literally, of course, that’s pantheism, and idolatry. But poetically, it’s profound.”

“I began to walk toward the edge of the fifty-foot-high rocky cliff. I felt no hurry and no hesitation. I felt no hope and no fear. There was Nothing within and Nothing without. The sea below seemed to beckon. I had no more will. I was following another will, a will without pity and without pain. I had no fear of death. I had already died. I was impervious.”

“Mama had crossed the sea of light and I was left alone in the dark. She had gone up in a chariot of fire and I was left in the water. My attempts at prayers fell like birds without wings. I had been preparing for this moment for months, yet nothing could possibly have prepared me for this moment. It was too big.”

“Zahel? That’s him? Vashar changes his name sometimes; he never calls himself Warbreaker anymore! I liked that name, but he hates it.”

Unfortunately this feels a bit too much like something my evil professor would have loved

“Their move is taking a long time and I’m getting bored.
Wow. I’m sitting here in a spaceship in the Tau Ceti system waiting for the intelligent aliens I just met to continue our conversation… and I’m bored. Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”

“‘He did not care. It was completely random. We were just there.’
‘But can’t you see,’ said Alice, ‘why I’d choose to believe anything different?’
‘Oh, love.’ Elspeth placed her hand over Alice’s. ‘You don’t have to believe anything about him at all.’”

“It was her fault, see, because when she first heard that Professor Grimes had a problem keeping his hands to himself around female students, she’d felt a thrill of excitement. Oh sure—she’d professed disgust in public, and then in private wondered if she was pretty enough, delicate and thin enough, to attract that same attention.”

Actually some really good points

“‘Surely it has been done,’ Dalinar said.
Wit grew distant, a faint smile on his lips. ‘Once. It wasn’t a full ascension, but a mortal did give up the power once. It proved to be the wrong choice, but it was the most selfless thing I believe I’ve ever witnessed. So yes, Dalinar, it is possible; but not easy.’”
Oh, Vin how I miss you.

“This is not the end. I loved you before I ever met you. I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness.”

“‘Why spend so long searching for a True Contradiction when you could just pass on? Given there’s nothing you want to go back to?’
‘I mean, I still have a family.’ Elspeth’s voice grew sharp. ‘I had parents. Have parents. I have siblings. I still have a life.’”

“If the Almighty should solicit my advice for designing an afterlife for animals, I would suggest that a heaven for dogs and a hell for rabbits can be combined very economically.”

“But was it not at least training for something similar? To rejoice in the acrobatics of thought—not as Stoics did, which was to manipulate language for mean and personal gain, but to sharpen their tools in preparation for the real digging. What greater pleasure could there be? What else was life for?”