Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

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

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.