Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive, #2.5)

by Brandon Sanderson

“Don’t be stupid,” she said. “Every sense of morality is odd.”

Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.”

“That wasn’t crude,” Lift noted. “That was being poetic. Ol’ Whitehair said you can’t be crass, so long as you’re talkin’ ’bout art. Then you’re being elegant. That’s why it’s okay to hang pictures of naked ladies in a palace.”

’Sides, I bet those scribes work nights. They feed off ink. Why sleep when you could be writin’ up some new law about how many fingers people can use to hold a spoon?