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

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

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

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.

Ruin still used Reen's voice-it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing...it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she'd never actually seen herself.

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.