...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself... I thought, cringing.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.