Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

“Though most expect young men to be fools, I’ve noticed that a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

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

They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.”