Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

by Brandon Sanderson

You have to stare the world in the eyes, in all its grimy brutality. You have to acknowledge its depravities. Live with them. It’s the only way to accomplish anything meaningful.”

I find nothing more frightening than a man trying to do what he has decided is important. Very little in the world has ever gone astray—at least on a grand scale—because a person decided to be frivolous.”

“‘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.’”