Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.

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

So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—” “Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.

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

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.