The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.

head. Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.

Death is the destination. But the journey, that is life. That is what matters.

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”

But weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.”