Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.

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

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?