Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)

by Brandon Sanderson

“Heroism is a myth you tell idealistic young people—specifically when you want them to go bleed for you. It got one of my sons killed and another taken from me. You can keep your heroism and return to me the lives of those wasted on foolish conflicts.”

“That’s because Wit is an asshole,” Zahel said.

She had two distinct advantages though. She was Radiant. And Ruthar was an idiot. “I refuse this,” he said, tossing his sword aside. “I will not face a woman in combat. It is demeaning.” And so, Jasnah stabbed him straight through the throat.

Wit dropped his bloody handkerchief before Ruthar. “How remarkable,” he said. “If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won’t stand up for you. There’s poetry in that, don’t you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?”

“Journey before destination, you bastard.”