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Life couldn’t be as pathetic as it seemed. Yet it had to be. There wasn’t anything else.
“Once maybe I would have thought you a fool, but … well, that’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren’t going to hurt you.”
“Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don’t continue in it after failure?”
“Good men don’t need to become legends.” She opened her eyes, looking up at him. “They simply do what’s right anyway.”
“Sometimes a bad situation is still better than the alternative.
Every scholar knew that one of the greatest dangers in research was the desire to find a specific answer.
There was honor in facing the consequences of one’s actions. Wasn’t there?
but sometimes even shallow things felt important.
That’s why I always felt this was wrong. I didn’t have to work for it, so I couldn’t believe that I deserved it.
You created the thing that can kill you, Ruin, Vin said. And you just made one huge final mistake. You shouldn’t have killed Elend. You see, he was the only reason I had left to live.
