Cytonic (Skyward, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

“But…stories say something. About us, and about where we came from. They’re a reminder that we have a past, a history. And a future.”

“It is curious, isn’t it? It’s like…people are all a little more real when they’re together. Maybe together we remind one another what it is to be alive. To have family.”

I found it interesting how humane things became once the people far up the command chain—the ones who didn’t have to bleed for the decisions they made—couldn’t force everyone into line.

You cannot be defined by your questions. Only by what you do with them.”

we shouldn’t be required to keep giving until we’d been wrung out. That wasn’t love.

You can’t force someone to be kind or to accept growth.”

They were static, and that was their weakness. My strength was the opposite; my strength was that I could change.