Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.