Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

by Brandon Sanderson

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”

She’d had so much more time when she was younger. She couldn’t help thinking she’d wasted much of it.

I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.

Anyone? We’re down here, and we’re making bad puns. Please save us from ourselves!”

“It frightens me,” Shallan said, “because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes our perception.