Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)

by Brandon Sanderson

“‘War is the last option of the state that has failed,’”

And if a tool seemed broken at first glance, perhaps you were simply applying it to the wrong task.

“Secret Horneater recipe,” Renarin said. “Apparently it has only two lines of instructions. ‘Take everything you have, and put him in pot. Don’t let anyone airsick touch seasonings.’”

Time. It was a sadistic master. It made adults of children—then gleefully, relentlessly, stole away everything it had given.

“It won’t be like that for me,” Kaladin said. “You told me it would get worse.” “It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”