Words are where most change begins.

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

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

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

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

I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.