Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

by Brandon Sanderson

“Spren are . . . power . . . shattered power. Power given thought by the perceptions of men. Honor, Cultivation, and . . . and another. Fragments broken off.”

“‘As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.’”

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

It seemed that the rain wanted him to stay inside, so he went out. The rain wanted him to give in to the despair, so he forced himself to think.

“You sent him to the sky to die, assassin,” Kaladin said, Stormlight puffing from his lips, “but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.”