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

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.

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

Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.

You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze