Tathingdwen,

“And you are far better at that than Kelsier ever was, Elend.

“So, you’re saying I should simply kill myself.” “No. I’m telling you to have pride in yourself, Your Majesty.”

“Anyone who would feel disappointed to find you is too dense to be of any relevance,” Elend said. “I don’t want you to be like them, Vin. They’re not honest. They don’t care. I like you as you are.”

It was a game—so much of one, in fact, that the young Breeze had found the open brutality of the skaa underground to be refreshing.

“Cannot a human man love his father, yet not believe he is a good person?”

Even her strength won’t last forever. She can’t save the city.

“My entire life has been death, Elend.

But Vin could sense Allomancers who used metals inside a coppercloud. She still wasn’t certain why.