Elantris (Elantris, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

“She’s going to faint dead away when I tell her you’ve already killed off poor Raoden.”

I love their father and daughter relationship!

“You talk about hunger and pain as if they are forces that can’t be resisted. Anything is acceptable, as long as the hunger made you do it—remove our comforts, and we become animals.”

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.”

and hard times make people willing to accept a man who preaches change.”

Pain lost its power when other things became more important.

Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise—some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity often springs from strife, child.”