Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

“the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”

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

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.

“You might want to keep that. It wasn’t intended to be simply functional.”

Oooooooo

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

“If you’re always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.

It does gentlemen good to be forced to wait upon a woman’s whims—or, so my mother was always fond of telling me.”

good man

“Maybe he’d look a little less depressed if there were a woman in his life.” “I guess that would depend on the woman.”

the banter is top-tier

“Read when you’re with someone else, not me.” “But that’s how our relationship began!”

i love them fr fr

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”