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“The world’s soft the way the ocean is. Ask any sailor what I mean. But even when it is at its most violent, Hadrian . . . focus on the beauty of it.”
― Kingdoms of Death
― Kingdoms of Death
“Would you still have principles? Isn’t a principle about what you give up, not what you gain?”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“Because good people can turn desperate when the horrors are upon them—especially people whose culture of plenty has left them with no systems to cope with scarcity or cataclysm. Good people will turn monstrous when it’s down to their survival or someone else’s.”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“Thomil had said that how a person felt about their actions didn’t matter; only the actions themselves mattered.”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“Change has an illusory aspect to it. We pretend that big changes hang on single decisions, single moments. And they do. But single decisions and single moments, in turn, have a mountain of smaller decisions behind them. You can't have an avalanche without a mountain of snow, even if it begins with one bit starting to tumble.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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