Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archive, The)

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

“You can’t be in Bridge Four. We’re bodyguards for your own family. What are you going to do? Guard yourself?”

It wasn’t a lie. It was a different truth

Careful planning was, indeed, the water that nourished innovation

“You’ve told me the table perceives itself this way.”

“Because people have considered it, long enough, as being a table,” Pattern said. “It becomes truth to the table because of the truth the people create for it.”

“Everything will be forgiven,” Shallan said.

“See?”

“Except your breath,” she added.

“You all seem odd to me,” Syl said lightly. “Everyone but Rock, who is a complete gentleman.”

“He thinks you’re a god. You shouldn’t encourage him.”

“Why not? I am a god.”

Expectation wasn’t just about what people expected of you.

It was about what you expected of yourself.

Our stupidities complement one another.”

“My other hand?” Lopen said. “The one that was cut off long ago, eaten by a fearsome beast? It is making a rude gesture toward you right now. I thought you would wish to know, so that you can prepare to be insulted.”