Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive, #2.5)

by Brandon Sanderson

“I could call you lotsa stuff,” Lift said. “Be glad I don’t got much of an imagination. Let’s go.”

“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.”