Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.