I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaod—apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn't taste too good. Kolo? In fact, it's so violently bitter that no one can keep it down." "It's nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option," Raoden said dryly

Oh, I’m just a happy person.

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.