We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

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

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

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