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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1)
Head bowed, hands in his lap, he carried no weapons. He hadn’t summoned his Shardblade in years, and it felt equally long since he’d had a bath. He did not complain. If he looked like a wretch, people treated him as a wretch. One did not ask a wretch to assassinate people.
from The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson
Jimmy Cerone added 3mo ago
“Sometimes,” Dalinar said, “the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
from The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson
Jimmy Cerone added 3mo ago
According to legend, the Shardblades were first carried by the Knights Radiant uncounted ages ago. Gifts of their god, granted to allow them to fight horrors of rock and flame, dozens of feet tall, foes whose eyes burned with hatred. The Voidbringers. When your foe had skin as hard as stone itself, steel was useless. Something supernal was required
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Jimmy Cerone added 3mo ago
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.”
from The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago
After failing Tien, then Dallet and his team, then ten successive groups of slaves, it was hard to find the will to try again.
from The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson
Jimmy Cerone added 3mo ago
His clothing—striped trousers of black and red with a dark blue sweater that matched the color of his knit cap—had once been fine, but it was now growing ragged. Had he once been something other than a slaver? This life—the casual buying and selling of human flesh—seemed to have an effect on men. It wearied the soul, even if it did fill one’s money
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Jimmy Cerone added 3mo ago
They weren’t pagans here, and writing was a feminine art; men learned only glyphs, leaving letters and reading to their wives and sisters.
from The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson
Jimmy Cerone added 3mo ago
One more try. Kaladin opened his eyes. He was cold and wet, but he felt a tiny, warm candle flame of determination come alight inside him. He clenched his hand, crushing the blackbane leaf inside, then dropped it over the side of the chasm. He lowered the other hand, which had been holding Syl.
from The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson
Jimmy Cerone added 3mo ago
“You are old enough to wonder, to ask, to reject what is presented to you simply because it was presented to you. But you also cling to the idealism of youth. You feel there must be some single, all-defining Truth—and you think that once you find it, all that once confused you will suddenly make sense.”
from The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson
Jimmy Cerone added 3mo ago