The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6)

by Brandon Sanderson

’Cuz in my experience, marryin’ is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein’ alive.”

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity—that was how to get stuff done.

Survivorism therefore was not about winning, but about lasting as long as you could before you lost.

Can you beat them on your own? Marasi half whispered, half mouthed at Wayne. He grinned and mouthed back, Does a guy wif no hands got itchy balls? He grabbed the side of the grave and hauled himself out.

It seemed to him that the smarter a man was, the more likely he was to pretend he knew more than he did.

The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit—but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.”