Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

“The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the

time.”

Only a few months playing noblewoman, and I already find anything that isn’t cultivated to be inferior.

Sometimes, I worry that I’m not the hero everyone thinks I am,

“But, what is money? A physical representation of the abstract concept of effort.

“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?” Vin frowned.

“Anyone can believe in someone, or something, that always succeeds, Mistress. But failure…ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value, I think.”