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“To comprehend / all your perfections with one’s soul; / to melt in agonies before you, / grow pale and waste away… that’s bliss!”

“She left quietly, but Leto could see that Hwi, too, was tortured. There was no mistaking the deep sadness in her for the humanity Leto had sacrificed. She knew what Leto knew: they would have been friends, lovers, companions in an ultimate sharing between the sexes. Her masters had planned for her to know.”

“‘I’ll perish,’ Tanya says, / ‘but perishing from him is lovely.’”

“The less we love a woman / the easier ‘tis to be liked by her, / and thus more surely we undo her / amid seductive toils.”

“‘To my certain knowledge, when I am no longer consciously present here among you, when I am here only as a fearsome creature of the desert, many people will look back upon me as a tyrant.
‘Fair enough. I have been tyrannical.
‘A tyrant—not fully human, not insane, merely a tyrant.’“

Michael Kramer using Wayne’s voice for Ann explaining why she likes firearms so much… I feel sick.

“Presently, Idaho permitted himself that devil-may-care grin for which he had been so well known. ‘Then I will speak to the first Leto and to Paul, the ones who know me best. Use me well, for I did love you.’
Leto closed his eyes. Such words always distressed him. He knew it was love to which he was most vulnerable.”

“Some say I have no conscience. How false they are, even to themselves. I am the only conscience which has ever existed.”

“‘Whatever my Lord commands.’
Leto stared down at the man. ‘We are myth-killers, you and I, Moneo. That’s the dream we share. I assure you from a God’s Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.’
‘Thus you have taught me, Lord.’”

“But do you think that everything will be finished when I leave Nohant? Do you think that I shall be forgotten? You have just said that Chopin cannot love—perhaps that means only that he was never able to love you.”

“In spite of his being a genius, he is a man, my dearest, only a man. It is only in Paris drawing-rooms that they think of him as a god.”

“‘I am in love,’ whispered anew / to the old crone with sorrow she. / ‘Friend of my heart, you are not well.’ / ‘Leave me. I am in love.’”

“I liked his traits, / to dreams the involuntary addiction, / nonimitative oddity, / and sharp, chilled mind; / I was embittered, he was sullen; / the play of passions we knew both;”

“Knowing your ancient affection for the pranks or my outcast Muse, I was about to send you several stanzas of my Onegin, but was too lazy to do so. I do not know if they will let my poor Onegin into the Heavenly Kingdom of Publication; in any case I will try.”

“Anyway, I am ready to hang myself if necessary.”

“Why should I avoid killing good people? I follow the path of the gods themselves by delivering death indiscriminately. To do otherwise would presume I am greater than they.”

“But I had discovered that when I went hours without eating I achieved a certain lightness, and that lightness felt good. I was trying to die or anything, but I did like this feeling of becoming less substantial. The closer I became to air, the less I would feel.”

So unbelievably excited for this. Man I wish I spoke Russian

“Deadly beauty is the starkest variety, and you will never find a murderess more intoxicating, more entrancing, than the sea.”

“That wizard from the stars wasn’t me, by the way. I’ve always wondered who traded the device to Fort. That’s Nalthian tech, with Awakened predictive connection circuits.”

“I had an encounter—well, more a collision—with the Sorceress a few years before. Let’s just say she had something I needed, but liberating it from her proved more difficult than I’d assumed. The end result? The Sorceress gave me one of her famous curses. Look, even the most graceful dancer trips once and a while. My curse took away my sense of taste, and, well… my other four senses as well.”

“Now, you might have noticed that the young woman in the barrel was not Tress, and you might think she was actually in one of the other kegs. She was not. Tress was not hiding in some other piece of cargo; Tress was not hiding at all. Tress was the Inspector.”

Wait I forgot how funny Polonius is omg

“There, he sought the wisdom of the Ancient Dead, who could see far more clearly, if you knew how to get them to talk to you. From them, he discovered something he had never suspected. Dalinar Kholin had been an absolute storming genius.”

“And events are transpiring! Autonomy is moving. I have a message I’m sure is from Taldain, though the planet should be unreachable.”
I didn’t realize the transition between Stormlight and Mistborn era two was so obvious wow

“Wit woke in a bed somewhere far from Roshar. A place with soil, budding skyscrapers, and firearms. It had worked; he would continue to exist.”
Oh hello Scadriel era two!! Wax and Wayne begins now!

Oh my god Renarin would have LOVED Elend