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?”

“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.”

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

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

“You don’t stop loving someone just because they hurt you,” he said. “It would certainly make things easier if you did.”

“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.”