Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

“I’ll do my best, Your Majesty.” “No,” Elhokar said. “You’ll do what I command. Be extraordinary, Captain. Nothing else will suffice.”

“You don’t care about how you’ll be remembered?” “I’ll remember myself, which is enough.

I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.