If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

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

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

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

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

I strive for nothing if not consistency