The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
If the afterlife really is a big war,” Kaladin said, “then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.
Expectation. is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.
Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist.
Humans don’t make sense.” “If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.
Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception
Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.
It is beautiful because it have been. It should have been.
Words are where most change begins.
Brightness,” the man said as she stepped up to him, “we aren't what you think we are.” “No,” Shallan replied. “You aren't what you think yourselves to be.
Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.
A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.
Progress is learning to control your world.
Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.
[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.
For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.
a cheerful voice said in his mind.
Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
