Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

What was that?" Galladon demanded. "I think I just destroyed the biology section" Raoden replied with wonder.

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.

Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.' Kelsier leaned forward again. 'But, you weren't born an aristocrat. You're not noble, Vin. You don't have to play by their rules--and that makes you even more powerful.

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

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.