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War was a masculine art, but when you started attacking women, you’d stopped engaging in war. You deserved anything that happened to you after that point.
Rhythm of War (2020)
Eventually Dalinar had done what any good commander did when faced by such persistent mass insubordination: He backed down. When good men disobeyed, it was time to look at your orders.
Rhythm of War (2020)
If there is one thing I can guarantee you about humankind, Last Listener, is is this: Provide them with a sword , and they will find a way to impale themselves upon it.”
Rhythm of War (2020)
The trouble wasn’t getting answers. It was finding the presence of mind to accept them.
Rhythm of War (2020)
And she would ask the best question of them all.
What will I discover next?
Rhythm of War (2020)
I’m not using a key at all. I’m breaking the lock.
Rhythm of War (2020)
He grinned, then kissed her hand again. He seemed to think that sort of thing would eventually spark passion in her. When in truth, physical stimulation was so inferior to mental stimulation.
Rhythm of War (2020)
“I’m telling you to think!” his father snapped. “I’m telling you that if you want to change the world, you have to stop being part of the problem!”
Rhythm of War (2020)
Navani wasn’t certain what to think about how easily it had happened. It was nice to make headway; yet in her experience, a fair breeze one day was the herald of a tempest to come.
Rhythm of War (2020)
She knew she shouldn’t let the lack of results bother her. Real scientists understood that experiments like this weren’t failures; they were necessary steps on the way to discovery.
Rhythm of War (2020)
And storm Teft if it wasn’t a valid question. One not enough soldiers asked themselves. Right here, right now, should I be fighting? Is there a better way?
Rhythm of War (2020)
I wasn’t thinking straight, Veil thought. That’s kind of the point of drinking.…
Rhythm of War (2020)
Mathematics thought that there were numbers associated with tones—frequencies, wavelengths. Music, at its most fundamental level, was math.
Rhythm of War (2020)
A good lie, the delicious kind, hinted at hidden grandeur or further secrets. This was instead the lie of a drunken has-been at the bar, trying to drum up enough pity to get a free drink. It was more pathetic than interesting.
Rhythm of War (2020)
In her little room of a laboratory, everything fit together. She’d met scholars who claimed they needed chaos to function. Perhaps that was true for some, but in her experience, good science wasn’t about sloppy inspiration. It was about meticulous incrementalization.
Rhythm of War (2020)
So Ishar was a butcher, a mad surgeon as well as a crazed theocrat. For some reason, that relieved Dalinar. It was disgusting, but this was an ordinary kind of evil. He’d expected something worse.
Rhythm of War (2020)
These are not the actions of greatness. You are no scholar. You merely like being near them. You are no artifabrian. You are merely a woman who likes trinkets. You have no fame, accomplishment, or capacity of your own. Everything distinctive about you came from someone else. You have no power—you merely like to marry men who have it.
Rhythm of War (2020)