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“Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.”
“Women are like … thunderstorms. They’re beautiful to look at, and sometimes they’re nice to listen to—but most of the time they’re downright inconvenient.”
Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.
I have seen men who have beaten from themselves the ability to recognize truth and goodness, and I do not think I am one of them. I can still see the tears in a young child’s eyes and feel pain at his suffering. If I ever lose this, then I will know that I’ve passed beyond hope of redemption.
“But 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.
“I think I’m going to kiss you.”
Maybe I should pay just a little more attention to things like that, Elend thought to himself. Valette suffers my hair the way it is, but would she like it better if I had it styled?
Pfft down HORRENDOUS
“It’s a very unsatisfying end to a story, Sazed.” He smiled in amusement. “Be careful, mistress—become too fond of reading, and you may turn into a scholar.”
“But still … things will change.” “That is the nature of all life, mistress,” Sazed said. “The world must change.”
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
“You might want to grab her something to wear too,” Kelsier suggested. “I think poor Spook’s about to have a heart attack.”
“You don’t stop loving someone just because they hurt you,” he said. “It would certainly make things easier if you did.”
After that … well, perhaps they could find a way to work around the lies and the scams.
Down HORRENDOUS i tell you
Trust me, Vin, he’d said. You trusted me enough to jump off the wall, and I caught you. You’re going to have to trust me this time too.
Currently sobbing because Kelsier's voice is replacing Reen's voice in her head
“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?”
“Anyone can believe in someone, or something, that always succeeds, mistress. But failure … now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value, I think.”
He’s so strong! she thought with frustration.
Why do both Kelsier and Vin have this exact thought every time they encounter an inquisitor I'm crying
Vin leaned on Sazed, her teeth gritted against the pain of her broken leg. “I bring you a message from a friend of ours,” she said quietly. “He wanted you to know that he’s not dead. He can’t be killed. “He is hope.” Then she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler’s heart.
Hardest outro
If I fail, another shall come to finish my work.
