Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaod—apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn't taste too good. Kolo? In fact, it's so violently bitter that no one can keep it down." "It's nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option," Raoden said dryly

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The most important kind, I think.

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.