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He could be more than you think.
“I feel his loss like a hole in my own flesh,
Spren broke in different ways, it appeared. Just like people.
He’d been running from disaster to disaster for so long, he’d completely forgotten this joy.
She didn’t deserve hatred, but understanding.
“Would that any of us,” he said, “could protect ourselves from the costs heroism often requires. But again, if there were no cost, no sacrifice, then would it be heroism at all? I cannot promise you that it will be easy, but Shallan, I’m proud of you.”
“Everything you’ve done—Kal, everything you’ve been—has prepared you for what’s next. It’s going to be hard. Fortunately, life has been hard, so you’re working under familiar constraints.”
“Why?” Kaladin asked. “Why go if I can’t do what I’m sent to do?” “Because this is the journey, Kaladin,” Wit said softly. “The last part of it.
“The wrong people get far too much mileage out of things that sound nice,”
“A virtue is something that is valuable even if it gives you nothing. A virtue persists without payment or compensation. Positive thinking is great. Vital. Useful. But it has to remain so even if it gets you nothing. Belief, truth, honor … if these exist only to get you something, you’ve missed the storming point.”
If hope doesn’t mean anything to you when you lose, then it wasn’t ever a virtue in the first place.
“You did one of the most difficult things a man can do: you gave yourself a second chance.”
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That was odd to hear, even a year after the wedding. It hadn’t been a foregone conclusion that she would take Adolin’s name; among the Alethi lighteyes, either party was equally likely to keep their name as adopt a new one. In her case, she was needed in the line of Kholin succession. She doubted she’d take a throne that Adolin had refused, but Dalinar wanted people he trusted in line. Her adoption into the Kholin house would strengthen her claim, should it come to that. In explaining this to her, Dalinar and Navani had been speaking pragmatically—but that wasn’t what Shallan remembered most
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You can be a good person and say no, Notum. I’ve learned that.”
“I lay on the ground, battered and assaulted, and watched your husband rise in my defense against overwhelming odds. He saved me with no expectation of reward. In that moment I knew that Honor lived.”
“Take a person from the darkness and show them that light still exists. It won’t fix everything, but it does make a difference.”
“Life breaks us,” Dalinar said. “Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.”
“I want to be better,” he whispered. “We all do,” she said.
he made me think I should see the people I care about before I leave. We never know what is going to happen tomorrow.”
“You can’t trust a man when he’s drunk. He’ll accidentally say things he ain’t ready to say yet.
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“I found a few pieces of myself,” she said, “that I’d lost.”
if I could enshrine one law in all further legal codes, it would be this. Let people leave if they wish.
I do not have answers, and there will always be some who denounce me for this decision I made. But let me teach a truth here that is often misunderstood: sometimes, it is not weakness, but strength, to stand up and walk away.
“The best words are the ones most people don’t understand.” “That is literally the opposite of how language should function.”
“Your house anywhere close?” “Nearby,” Szeth said. “Want to visit?” Szeth shrugged, his eyes now closed. “There is nothing for me there.”
Still, Kaladin forced the dark thoughts behind him and presented good thoughts, like soldiers with spears, to keep them away. Syl was right. He could claim many things about himself, but he couldn’t justify the argument that he was only a killer. And life was good. He had felt it earlier. It didn’t banish the darkness, but active thoughts, as counters to it, really did help.
He didn’t want to get into the habit of lowering his standards, but conversely, never being willing to reassess was just as bad.
But storm it, there was one thing that was reliably true about Kaladin Stormblessed. Regardless of his job or his location, even if you took away his ability to fight … he was still the most stubborn fool of a person who ever lived.
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