Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.