187 quotes
“The purpose of youth is to experience variety while it is still interesting.” She glanced at Dalinar. “It isn’t until we get older that we should be forced to be boring.”
The Way of Kings (2010)
Order was the very substance of rule. If things were organized, control could be asserted.
Oathbringer (2017)
That was the coward’s route. Wishing for ignorance.
Oathbringer (2017)
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)
Fine? All right? Now leave me alone. You’re stinking up the place with an air of contented idiocy.
Oathbringer (2017)
"I have a headache"
"You can't get headaches"
"So you're fond of telling me."
Warbreaker (2009)
Oh, Adolin, Shallan thought. He’d arrived at a theory he liked, and now wouldn’t let it go. It was a common mistake warned of in her scientific books.
Oathbringer (2017)
Within moments he was roaring his pleasure. Nothing these men did could touch him. He was a destroyer, a conqueror, a glorious maelstrom of death. A god.
Oathbringer (2017)
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)
Death comes, they whispered. Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it.
Death is the destination. But the journey, that is life. That is what matters.
The Way of Kings (2010)
The sea was so open, so welcoming. Pay her a little respect, and she would carry you anywhere you wished to go. She’d even feed you along the way and lull you to sleep with her songs at night.
Dawnshard (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)
I’d hoped…I’d hoped you could tell me, give me an absolute right. For once, I’d like my moral code not to come with a list of exceptions at the end.
Oathbringer (2017)
“There you go again.”
“What?”
“Feeling guilty. Dalinar, you are a wonderful, honorable man—but you really are quite prone to self-indulgence.”
Guilt? As self-indulgence? “I never considered it that way before.”
The Way of Kings (2010)
That was the thing about omens—they were made up. Imagined signals of something nebulous. So why not make them up to be something positive?
Dawnshard (2020)
Up close, differences could chafe. But if you remembered that from far away you all looked the same…well, that was important too.
Dawnshard (2020)
“They all stretched farther and farther until they collapsed. In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, ‘This is good. This is what I wanted,’ and gone home?”
Oathbringer (2017)
I shouldn’t be so hard on our neighbors. They’re petty, yes, but it’s the pettiness of the ignorant. I’m not disgusted by them. I’m disgusted by the one who manipulates them.
The Way of Kings (2010)
“You make it sound like having the power to change the world is a bad thing.”
“Bad? No. Abhorrent, depressing, ghastly. Having power is a terrible burden, the worst thing imaginable, except for every other alternative.”
Oathbringer (2017)