The Rithmatist (Rithmatist, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

The pain of loss was still there. It never went away. It just got buried in time, like a rock slowly being covered over by dirt.

“But Trent always argued with those who called his work frivolous. Taste is frivolous when eating, he’d say—the body can get the same nutrients from bland food as it can from food that tastes good. Colors for fabric, paintings on walls, beautiful music—none of these things are necessary. However, humans are more than their need to survive.

school is about learning to learn. If you don’t practice studying things you don’t like, then you’ll have a very hard time in life.

What good is having friends if they don’t put you in mortal peril every once in a while?”