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“The Assembly is a mess, a half-dozen warlords with superior armies are breathing down my neck, barely a month passes without someone sending assassins to kill me, and the woman I love is slowly driving me insane.” Vin snorted at this last part.
He smiled and looked at her. “That’s a new … perfume you’re wearing.” Vin snorted, putting her head against his chest. “It’s not perfume, Elend. It’s dog.”
“Who are you?” Vin asked, stepping forward. “An enemy,” he replied, holding up a hand to ward her back. Vin hesitated. Mist swirled between them on the quiet street. “Why then did you help me fight those assassins?” “Because,” he said. “I’m also insane.”
“Books have great value,” Elend said. “Actions have greater value.”
“I thought you didn’t care how I spent my time.” “I don’t,” OreSeur said. “But I do get bored.” “And annoyed, apparently.”
A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
He was a creature who knew three hundred religions, yet had faith in none of them.
“I’m sorry. I think I did something bad.” “Oh?” he asked. “What is that?” “I made you emperor.” Elend smiled. “I noticed, and I accept.”
