Quotes from book

Words of Radiance

“Jasnah Kholin's words read.”

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”

“What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.”

“Power is an illusion of perception.”

“Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.”

“He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms--when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow--he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.”

“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.”

“I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”

“It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.”

“I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.”

“I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.”

“I can see what you’re up to.”
“Five foot six inches,” Shallan said. “I suspect that’s all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.”

“I seek the truth,” Shallan said. “Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That’s who I am.”

“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.”

“Storms, woman,” [Kaladin] said. “I don’t know what to make of you.”
“Preferably not a corpse.”
“I’m surprised someone hasn't already done that.”

“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”

“Humans don’t make sense.”
“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.”

“I will protect even those I hate,” Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. “So long as it is right.”

“Words are where most change begins.”