Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed." "He is hope." The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.