I strive for nothing if not consistency

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

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

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

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

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

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.