Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)

by Brandon Sanderson

You didn’t fill out a map all at once. You did it one line at a time. That was the soul of discovery.

Jasnah took comfort in the idea that there was no plan, that everything was random. She said that a chaotic universe meant the only actions of actual importance were the ones they decided were important. That gave people autonomy. Navani loved her daughter, but couldn’t see it the same way. Organization and order existed in the very way the world worked. From the patterns on leaves to the system of compounds and chemical reactions. It all whispered to her.