The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him.

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she-- along with others-- had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.