Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

Renarin blushed, then nodded. People had trouble following him sometimes, but that was merely because he tended to be so thoughtful. He’d be thinking about something deep, something brilliant, and then would only mention a part. It made him seem erratic, but once you got to know him, you realized he wasn’t trying to be esoteric. His lips just sometimes failed to keep up with his brain.

we talked about this

The kind of man that made women think they preferred older men, when in reality they just preferred him.

he’d been feeling better. That wasn’t so uncommon a feeling for him. He felt good lots of days. Trouble was, on the bad days, that was hard to remember. At those times, for some reason, he felt like he had always been in darkness, and always would be.

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. Trust me, I’ve practiced.”

“We could just skip the boring part.” “Skip?” Wit said, aghast. “Skip part of a story?”

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

“Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.”

The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one.