What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry.

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