Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)

by Brandon Sanderson

I have discovered the entrance to the realm of gods and legends, and once I join them, my kingdom will never end. I will never end.”

“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.”

“The Almighty cannot die. People can die. Heralds can die. Even Honor could die. But Honor, people, and Heralds will all live again—transformed,

The Ghostbloods are not a Rosharan organization, and I don’t think you appreciate the danger they present.…”

Stormlight is something else, with some of the properties of both a liquid and a gas.

hypothesis: that if Stormlight reacted to a tone, Voidlight and Towerlight would as well.

To enjoy easy days, sometimes you had to first do difficult things.

“Instead you always pushed us back. You fought with stones, and you beat us. My kind pretends we know so much, but during many Returns, we’d find ourselves struggling to catch up to your kind. That is our terrible secret. We hear the rhythms, we understand Roshar and the spren. But the rhythms don’t change. The spren don’t change.

accept that there will be those I cannot protect!”

A battle of the gods. A battle for everything.