The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

Every man is a hero of his own story.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.

Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?

Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He’d never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive