Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”

Adolin stepped forward, sword in hand. “I’ve got a key.”

“It’s all good, gancho,” Lopen called. “How hard can it be to learn how to fly? Skyeels do it all the time, and they are ugly and stupid. Most bridgemen are only one of those things.”

Some days, it seemed you couldn’t break Kaladin Stormblessed with all the stones on Roshar. Then one of his men would get wounded, and you’d see him crack.

Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.

You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.”

“What is the most important step a man can take?”

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“Journey before destination,” Dalinar said. “It cannot be a journey if it doesn’t have a beginning.”

“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”

“We lift the bridge together, Teft,” Kaladin said. “And we carry it.”

Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone. But that does not mean that I walked alone. —From The Way of Kings, postscript

if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.

The only way to create something that nobody hates is to ensure that it can’t be loved either. Remove enough spice from soup, and you’ll just end up with water.”