Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.

Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?

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

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.