The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1)

by Brent Weeks

“When you don’t know what to do, do what’s right and do what’s in front of you. But not necessarily what’s right in front of you.”

A ruler who would sweat with them was a ruler who might understand men who won their bread by the sweat of their brow.

“At some point, you have to decide not merely what you’re going to believe, but how you’re going to believe. Are you going to believe in people, or in ideas, or in Orholam? With your heart, or with your head? Will you believe what’s in front of you, or in what you think you know? There are some things you think you know that are lies. I can’t tell you what those are, and I’m sorry for that.”