Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

“But sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”

For once, I’d like my moral code not to come with a list of exceptions at the end.”

Let’s go steal from some rich people and give to some crazy people instead.”

Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.

“It’s terrible,” Wit said, stepping up beside her, “to have been hurt. It’s unfair, and awful, and horrid. But Shallan . . . it’s okay to live on.”

“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”

A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.