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“If you’re always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
“Because if I accept that Elend bears no guilt for what his people did to mine, then I must admit to being a monster for the things that I did to them.”
“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different,” Sazed said. “Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then knows that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”
Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life.
Why can’t you see? This isn’t about good or evil. Morality doesn’t enter into it. Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men—only the things they want are different.”
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?
I’ve come to realize that objects and energy are composed of the very same things, and can change state from one to the other.
