Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art.

You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. 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.”

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

‘The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.’ ”

The only way to create something that nobody hates is to ensure that it can’t be loved either.