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"when people had to choose where to place a person, they would always choose a spot beneath them."

"Why did you kill him, when he answered everything?" Mord pressed.
"Because a cleaved head no longer plots," Orka growled.

"Sometimes there are no choices. We are swept along in a current not of our own choosing...
I will be the current. I will be the course...
I will be their death."

"It is part of being human. Survival. To face hardship and trial, in the hope of it ending."

The synopsis did not lie when it said it would deliver the reader Six of Crows vibes. I'm loving this one, so far!

"Coin? Is that the sum of your soul, Agnar, Chief of the Battle-Grim? Coin?"

"Coin feeds bellies and is the weighing scale of a warrior's reputation,"

"I am blood. I am death, I am vengeance"

"It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realising he lacks the truth, to seek it out."

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar."

Damn, that chapter revealed so much! And none of it good!

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”

"power is an illusion of perception. Act like you have authority, and you often will."

'I made a list of our supplies...
'Wonderful,' Kaladin said. 'I'm sure a pile of brushes will be useful in fighting off Voidspren'
'Better than your tongue, which is notably dull lately.'

Shipping these two HARD!

Pros of reading a book sampler: You get to trial the book long before the official release date. :)

Cons of reading a book sampler: Getting totally absorbed in the story and realising you have another two months to wait until you can complete it :(

"It's terrible... to have been hurt. It's unfair, and awful, and horrid. But Shallan... it's okay to live on."

"An animal," Dalinar said, "reacts as it is prodded. You whip it, and it becomes savage. With an animal, you can start a tempest. Trouble is, once it's gone feral, you can't just whistle it back to you”

"Welcome to war... There are no unequivocal wins. Just victories that leave fewer of your friends dead than others."

“You learn more from bad art than you do from good art, as your mistakes are more important than your successes. Plus, good art usually evokes the same emotions in people—most good art is the same kind of good. But bad pieces can each be bad in their own unique way.”

"There are three ways men view the women of this world, Gabriel. Enemies to be overcome. Prizes to be won. Or as people. My advice is to choose the latter, my love. Lest they begin considering you the former."

"The dead feel as beasts, look as men, die as devils."

It's only in faerie tales that everything works out for the best with a magik spell or a prince's kiss. It's only in storybooks some little bastard picks up a sword and wields it like he was born to it. The rest of us? We have to work our arses off. And we might not ever taste triumph, but at least we dared to fail. We stand apart from those cowards whispering on the sidelines about how the strong did stumble

"De Leon. Ye live."
"Sadly."
"How?" he hissed.
"God didn't want me. And the devil was too afraid to open the door."

"The graveyards of the world are full of fools who thought of fear as anything but their friend."

"Is such not the desire of all young men with swords? Win glory, or glorious death?"

"His birth, an abomination. His life, a transgression. His soul, bound for perdition. But we beseech you, give him strength that he might overcome the misdeed of his making, and stand tall against this endless night."

"There's no misery as deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than one you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough, they become armour."

"I knew his fists like I knew my name. And I called it love."

"She's a survivor, a fighter, but she shouldn't have to be."

"I love you with all the broken, blood-stained pieces of me."

"Even the greatest of fools can't deny the existence of evil. We dwell in its shadow every day. The best of us rise above it, the worst of us swallow it whole, but we all of us wade hip-deep through it, every moment of our lives."