The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn

I thought myself the Holy First Witness, the prophet foretold to discover the Hero of Ages. Renouncing Alendi then would have been to renounce my new position, my acceptance by the others.

Alendi must not reach the Well of Ascension, Kwaan’s ancient words read, for he must not be allowed to release the thing that is imprisoned there.

Elend sighed, glancing toward the shutters to her room. They were closed, keeping the mists out, though Vin could see the darkness beyond.

He’s locked in his fate with ours.”

If a building were burning down, Allrianne would still stop to do her makeup before escaping.

Lose it to a tyrant who might be even worse than the Lord Ruler.

It’s been so long, he thought. The first time he’d seen this chamber, he had been escorting Vin to her first ball, where she’d met Elend. Sazed had chastised her for carelessly attracting the attention of so powerful a man. And now he himself had performed their marriage.

The birthmark on his arm. The way his hair turned grey when he was barely twenty and five years of age.

defy reality.