The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

“There has to be a balance, Vin,” he said. “Somehow we’ll find it. The balance between who we wish to be and who we need to be.” He sighed. “But for now,” he said, looking to the canal, “we have to be satisfied with who we are.”

Do not mourn because the time of this world’s end has arrived, Ruin said. That end was ordained from the very moment of the world’s conception. There is a beauty in death—the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion. For nothing is truly complete until the day it is at last destroyed.