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1 " She stuck her tongue out at him. A totally rational and reasonable way to fight a demigod. "
― Brandon Sanderson , Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive, #2.5)
2 " Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them. "
3 " It is strange,” the man said. “People get such a small amount of time. So many I’ve known say it—as soon as you feel you’re getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out. "
4 " I want control,” she said, opening her eyes. “Not like a king or anything. I just want to be able to control it, a little. My life. I don’t want to get shoved around, by people or by fate or whatever. I just ... I want it to be me who chooses. "
5 " It’s worse when they think they’re your friend. Gawx, the viziers. They make assumptions. They think they know you, then start to expect things of you. Then you have to be the person everyone thinks you are, not the person you actually are. "
6 " What if everybody is frightened, and nobody has the answers? "
7 " All right. Maybe I can get you one soul. Perhaps a tax collector...'cept they ain't human. Would they work? Or would you need, like, three of them to make up one normal person's soul? -Lift "
8 " What good is seeking a greater law, when that law can be the whims of a man either stupid or ruthless? "
9 " You couldn’t live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know who you were, and then they started to expect things from you. It was one step from there to being gobbled up. "
10 " You're my pet Voidbringer, and no lies are going to change that. I got you captured. No stealing souls, now. We ain't here for souls. Just a little thievery, the type what never hurt nobody. "
11 " The woman looked up at Lift. “He’s right about that, um…” “Say it,” Lift said. “Your Pancakefulness.” “Rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it? "
12 " He wasn’t so frightening, for a Voidbringer. He must have been like … the Voidbringer all the other ones made fun of for wearing silly hats. The one that would correct all the others, and explain which fork they had to use when they sat down to consume human souls. "
13 " She’d built her life around not having to wait for anyone or anything. "
14 " Being young was an excuse. A plausible justification "
15 " That lighta above, the lunks from the sky. I head loudin about it that was you, outsida, eh?"Yeah"The girl turned as if to leave, but then reconsidered and put a hand on lift's arm."You," the girl said to Lift. "Outsida?""Yeah.""You listenin'?""I'm listenin'.""People, they don't listen. "
16 " Course, that didn’t mean luck didn’t exist. You either believed in that, or you believed in what those Vorin priests were always saying—that poor people was chosen to be poor, on account of them being too dumb to ask the Almighty to make them born with heaps of spheres. "
17 " When one achieves immortality, one must find purpose beyond the struggle to live, "
18 " as soon as you feel you’re getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out. "
19 " Rich people, she decided, loved to stick with a theme. "
20 " The tree slowly fell over, playing dead. "