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Expectation wasn’t just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
That did not mean she was not still frightened or naive. She was both. But she was also tired. Tired of being shoved around, tired of being misled, tired of being dismissed.
A skyeel didn’t fear falling, did it? A fish didn’t fear drowning. Until he began thinking in a new way, he wouldn’t control this gift he had been given. And it was a gift. He would embrace this. The sky was now his.
“What has happened to us?” Dalinar asked. “Where is our honor?” “Honor is dead,” a voice whispered from beside him.
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You could not kill the wind. You could not stop it. It was beyond the touch of men. It was infinite. . . .
I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.
A woman’s strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.
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.’”
Kaladin longlegs.
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Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway. It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.
“Hey, up there? Anyone? We’re down here, and we’re making bad puns. Please save us from ourselves!”
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
“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.”
“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.
“Give me an audience who have come to be entertained, but who expect nothing special. To them, I will be a god. That is the best truth I know.”
