Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

‘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.’

Tarah’s beauty was a subtle thing. Like an uncut gemstone. The more you saw of it—the more you discovered of its natural facets—the more you loved it. Until one day it struck you that you’d never known anything as wonderful.

When has any man ever been content with what he has?

“Wandersail,”

“One can believe in a story without believing it happened.”

“If I pretend … If I pretend I didn’t do those things, it means that I can’t have grown to become someone else.”