Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

by Brandon Sanderson

“The sensation—it’s not sorrow, but something deeper—of being broken. Of being crushed so often, and so hatefully, that emotion becomes something you can only wish for. If only you could cry, because then you’d feel something. Instead, you feel nothing. Just . . . haze and smoke inside. Like you’re already dead.”

She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken. Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.

💚

“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.”

🔥🔥🔥

After all, I am frequently quite silly—but I am almost always truthful.