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"Stop fighting who you are... stop fearing who you might find if you do. You never know, you might even discover you love yourself."

"Vipers' girl?" I smirk, and he grins against my skin.
"Forever," he murmurs.

"'Words are important,' Gavilar said. 'Much more than you give them credit for being.'

'Perhaps,' Dalinar said. 'But if they were all-powerful, you wouldn't need my sword, would you?'"

"As the waves of the sea must continue to surge, so must our will continue resolute."

"Look close at a given person, and you'd see their uniqueness - see that they didn't quite match whatever broad category you'd first put them in."

"I can be a scholar, a woman, a historian, a Radiant. People will still try to classify me by the thing that makes me an outsider. They want, ironically, the thing I don't do or believe to be the prime marker of my identity."

"'I have a suggestion, sir,' Sigzil continued. 'Try to understand what people want out of life, and respect that, rather than projecting onto them what you think they should-'

'Shut it, Sig.'

'Yes, sir. Sorry, sir.'"

"Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down."

"I'm am the monster that I fear we all can become."

“I wonder if men who use cords to bind are fools, since tradition, society, and momentum are going to tie us all down anyway.”

"It's not a lesson I claim to be able to teach. Experience herself is the great teacher, and you must seek her directly."

"'You can't civilise war,' Dalinar said. 'There's no painting it up and making it pretty.'

'You don't have to pull sorrow behind you like a sledge on the stones, scraping and crushing those you pass."

"I know that war is inevitable. I just didn't want you to have to be a part of it. I've seen what it does to men. War flays their souls, and those are wounds I can't heal."

"Three men bearing their son's name had lived and died... The soldier who had been forged in Amaram's army. The slave, so bitter and angry. His parents had never met Captain Kaladin, bodyguard to the most powerful man in Roshar.

And then there was the next man, the man he was becoming. A man who owned the skies and spoke ancient oaths. Five years had passed. And four lifetimes."

"Dalinar Kholin was a connoisseur of death."

"All that can make the world fair is this." Thorkel leaned forward in his chair and put a finger to Breca's temple. "Your thought-cage. The choices you make. Chose to treat others fairly: you'll sleep better for it."

"The Fates are binding but they are also vague and destinies can always be blown off course."

"You will never know what it feels like to have the whole world against you, to be forced into a narrative you never wanted to be a part of."

"I'm sure a lot of you think you know this next part of the story, when the great, heroic Perseus snuck up on the sleeping monster, effortlessly cutting her head off and leaving the island victorious. Well, that is the version that history wants you to remember, a simple tale of good vs evil, of hero vs villain - an easy story to tell. But the truth isn't always so black and white, is it?"

"If I could make the world my victim, then perhaps I could forget what it had felt like to be one myself."

"With happiness comes risk, risk of failing, risk of losing it all. Misery felt safer, it felt familiar. There are no expectations when you are sad."

"A man can sing endlessly of a woman's beauty, but if she acknowledges it herself she is immediately the villain? One day I think I might strain my eyes from rolling them so much.

Anyway, I never cared about being beautiful. I never even liked it. If I had the option to be beautiful again, I would not take it. Let me tell you, being feared was far more fun than being desired."

"I have come to realise that contentment is something you only ever truly appreciate in hindsight."

"Storytelling can be such a dangerous thing.
I have been called many things in my time:
Seductress,
Liar,
Monster,
Killer,
Rape victim.
People seem to forget that last one.
But history is written by the winners. Or, more simply, history is written by men"

"A woman can be strong and weak,
Beautiful and scared,
Scared and brave"

"And what would a dragon find to eat for nearly three hundred years in a chamber of stone and root and soil? If she ever lived, she is surely dead of starvation."

"She tears at the souls of warriors as they pass through her chamber on the soul road," Grend said, "...This is why we must die with a weapon in our fists, to fight her as we pass through Vergelmir, her dark chamber. It is the warriors' last test."

"We are the slayers of the vaesen, hunters of the Tainted, the reapers of souls. If you have not heard of our battle-fame, then we will gladly teach it to you."

"This is a world of blood. Of tooth and claw and sharp iron. Of short lives and painful deaths."

"She is my ever-growing weakness, a grey area blooming in my dark heart and stretching its colour across my soul until I can't help but want to be a better man for her, to be the man she deserves."

Why is my fantasy-loving, anti-romance self going 100% soft for this book and these Vipers???

""We all know what it means to be lost, to be alone, Little Bird, but together? Together, we're stronger. We shed that life, like a snake sheds its skin-"

"And became the Vipers," she finishes"