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

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?

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

What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.