Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

“Mmm. Yes, very, very nice man. Wonderfully smart too.” “Why don’t you marry him, then?” Pattern buzzed. “Is that—” “No that’s not an option.” “Oh.” He settled down into a contented buzz on her coat, where he appeared as a strange kind of embroidery.

Taravangian is wrong, the Stormfather said. You are not a hypocrite, Son of Honor. “I am,” Dalinar said softly. “But sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”

“I don’t mind people believing what works for them, Uncle. That’s something nobody ever seems to understand—I have no stake in their beliefs. I don’t need company to be confident.”