Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

by Brandon Sanderson

‘I ain’t grouchy,’ Teft snapped. ‘I just have a low threshold for stupidity.’

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”’

The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.’

“Honor” is a word applied to the actions of men from the past who have had their lives scrubbed clean by historians.’

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.