My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.