Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)

by Brandon Sanderson

“I’m telling you that if you want to change the world, you have to stop being part of the problem!”

“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?”

God i love Wit

When good men disobeyed, it was time to look at your orders.

We’ve gotta do what we think is best, and be fine with that. It’s all a man can do.”

Our weakness doesn’t make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong. For we had to carry it all these years.”

“Storytelling,” he said to the hallway, “is essentially about cheating.”

“Because the audience knows it’s fake,” Wit said. “When they watch and let themselves be amazed, they are joining in the illusion. They’re giving you something vital. Something powerful. Something essential. Their belief. “When you and the audience both start a performance knowing that a lie is going to be presented, their willing energy vibrates in tune with yours. It propels you. And when they walk away at the end, amazed but knowing they’ve been lied to—with their permission—the performance lingers in their minds. Because the lie was real somehow. Because they know that if they were to rip it apart, they could know how it was done. They realize there must have been flaws they could have caught. Signs. Secrets.”