Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning (The Mistborn Saga)

by Brandon Sanderson

If you can raise someone’s expectation … if you can make them need something … that is the source of wealth. Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed.”

“You’re going to watch it all burn?” “Ashes are excellent fertilizer,” Edwarn said. “Unless they pile so high they smother everything.”

You can beat anybody, Wayne always said, so long as you don’t let them fight back properly.