Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

by Brandon Sanderson

Art is part of us, Kaladin. That’s the use; that’s the reason. It exists because on some fundamental level we need it. Art exists to be made.”

The secret was that secret handshakes were stupid, but sometimes you used them anyway. Mostly for making scared friends feel like they belonged.

“Do you ever look back and feel intimidated by the flow of time? Bemused how its current snatched you up and carried you away?”

While Willshapers embraced this very sense of contrarity, an attitude that will come as no great surprise to any conversant with their predilections, and indeed might be found unexpected in its absence, the presence of such strife among Skybreakers is a source of no small stupefaction to many. —From Words of Radiance, chapter 40, page 1

what even is this

“If you can’t know the greater good,” Taravangian said, “why would you profess to try to seek it?”

It is often said that the best teacher is failure. This is true. But it is also the best killer. May you be lucky enough in failure to live, and unlucky enough in success to struggle.

THE GOD OF THE VICTOR RULES ROSHAR.