I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

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.