Quotes from book

The Way of Kings

“Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.”

“Weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.”

“ah, the outdoors," Shallan said. "I visited that mythical place once. It was so very long ago, I've nearly forgotten it. Tell me, does the sun still shine, or is that just my dreamy recollection'

'Surely your studies aren't that bad.”

“Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.”

“What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly… timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.”

“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”

“I will protect those who cannot protect themselves. --Second Ideal of the Knights Radiant”

“He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.”

“All right. First, find me a cliff"

"That, will it give you a vantage to see the area?"

"No," said Kaladin. "It will give me something to throw you off of”

“Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.”

“Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?”

“The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.”

“Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.”

“Brightness… I believe you stray into sarcasm."

"Funny. I thought I'd run straight into it, screaming at the top of my lungs.”

“All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.”

“One can have a wit, but not a witless”

“Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.”

“Philosophy? What good is that?” Isn’t it the art of saying nothing with as many words as possible?”

“In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.”