The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

Yalb laughed. “Afraid so. But you can’t go someplace a second time until you been there a first time, I reckon. Everyone has to stand out sometime, so you might as well do it in a pretty way like yourself!”

“So why fight? I told myself that I would try one last time. But I failed before I began. There’s no saving them.” “Doesn’t the fight itself mean anything?” “Not if you’re destined to die.” He hung his head. Sigzil’s words echoed in his head. Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination. Kaladin looked up at the crack of sky. Like a faraway river of pure, blue water. Life before death. What did the saying mean?