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“Unite them. I need a threat. Only danger will unite them.”
“I seek for an end to something that we never finished.
He couldn’t banish the seed of darkness inside him, but Stormfather, he didn’t need to let it rule him either.
You I will protect, little one, Kaladin thought at the child. I will protect them all.
Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.
Ryshadium were often called the “third Shard.” Blade, Plate, and Mount.
Nothing these men did could touch him. He was a destroyer, a conqueror, a glorious maelstrom of death. A god.
“You can’t civilize war,” Dalinar said. “There’s no painting it up and making it pretty.” “You don’t have to pull sorrow behind you like a sledge on the stones, scraping and crushing those you pass. You’re a monster.”
Adolin’s affection, all the sights of Urithiru were dun spheres.
What? He wasn’t going to drink the wine he’d washed the blood into. He wasn’t a barbarian.
But still, my ‘freedom’ is that of a leaf. Dropped from the tree, I just blow on the wind and pretend I’m in charge of my destiny.”
I am no poet, to delight you with clever allusions.
Dalinar bowed his head for a prayer. Let me be stronger than those who would kill me.
map. “Highprince,” Dalinar finally said. “Highprince,” Amaram said back, tipping his head. “Bastard,” Adolin said.
He knew this sword, knew it intimately. He’d carried it for decades, since winning it at the Rift all those years ago. Oathbringer.
He wasn’t broken. All of them were broken. Alethi society—lighteyed and dark. Maybe all of humankind.
Well, him and Kaladin, whose scars wouldn’t heal for some reason.
Skar and Kaladin
“But if you leave, you don’t get to complain. As long as you keep trying, there’s a chance. When you give up? That’s when the dream dies.”
“Sacrifice,” she said. “Do you think an empire is built without sacrifice?”
Don’t blame them, he thought. They don’t know. They don’t understand.
“you act so righteous. She says anyone who acts like you do is trying to hide something.”
Reason why Lift doesnt trust Dalinar
Emotion. It is what defines men—though ironically you are poor vessels for it. It fills you up and breaks you, unless you find someone to share the burden.”
