Necessary Eagle she/her Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 "No mating!" Plus dividing by zero. "You cannot have my pain!" No words, just all the feels. "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before pancakes." Words to live by, gancho. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post +Wax he/him Posted November 19, 2017 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 I posted some in my reviews of each part But this one is from part 5... Quote “Journey before destination,” Dalinar said. “It cannot be a journey if it doesn’t have a beginning.” .... Dalinar? “I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.” Quote The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar. 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndigoAjah he/him Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 “You tried to break me as a slave. But you failed. They rescued me.” Maybe it’s time for someone to save you, Syl had said in Shadesmar. But someone already had. Amaram raised the Shardblade high. “Bridge Four,” and before that: "why do you still hurt?!" And anything Nightblood said 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taliax none (name only) Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 All of Adolin's comments on fashion. All of them. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emailanimal he/him Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 Jasnah gets roughly one per appearance. Quote "But how did you even survive in the first place?" "Child, I am an Elsecaller." - Chapter 33 Quote "The answer is obvious. We need to find the Heralds." Kaladin nodded in agreement. "Then," Jasnah added, "we need to kill them." - Chapter 39 Quote "I'd happily cuddle skyeels, as you offer, if your team would be willing to spend some time immitating them" - Chapter 39 Quote "Oh, please do, Meridas. Give me an excuse. I dare you." - Chapter 53 Quote " I know what you are," Jasnah said. "You're my cousin. Family, Renarin." - Chapter 119 Quote "Seven Radiants?", Jasnah said, skeptical. "Uncle, that seems a tall order. even if one of us is - apparently - the storming Assassin in White." - Chapter 119 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenet Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 Tight-butt 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyrann Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 "Any more questions?" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egomere Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 Definately some of the best mentioned here. Lift calling Dalinar Tight-butt. actually just Lift. she rocks. - orders? More food... Pretty much anything involving Nightblood ('do you think she'll explain what it means to me' - paraphase) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy92 Posted November 22, 2017 Report Share Posted November 22, 2017 Quote “You’re not a monster, Shallan,” Wit whispered. “Oh, child. The world is monstrous at times, and there are those who would have you believe that you are terrible by association.” “I am.” “No. For you see, it flows the other direction. You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.” 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Coladan Posted December 2, 2017 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 I laughed so hard at this! “Were you … thinkin’ you’d fight them all on your own?” Lift said. “With a book?” “There is someone else for me to fight here.” “… With a book?” “Yes.” She shook her head. “Sure, all right. Why not? What do you want me to do?” “Do you have a weapon?” he asked. “Nope. Can’t read.” “Can’t…” Dalinar looked down at his book. “I meant a real weapon, Lift.” 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ailvara Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 (edited) Quote “Horses are bad enough. I’m not about to get onto something that doesn’t even have legs.” “Where’s your sense of adventure?” “I dragged it out back and clubbed it senseless for getting me into the army." Quote Personally, I think life is fair. It’s merely that often, you can’t immediately see what balances it. Quote The best indication of what human beings will do is not what they think, but what the record says similar groups have done in the past. Quote I wasn’t seeking answers. I felt that I had those already. Plenty, in multitude, from a thousand different sources. I wasn’t seeking ‘myself.’ This is a platitude that people have ascribed to me, and I find the phrase lacks meaning. In truth, by leaving, I was seeking only one thing. A journey. Quote Jasnah joined the group, delivering a stack of papers to her mother. “May I see?” Ialai asked. “No,” Jasnah replied; Dalinar hid a smile in his drink. “What secrets are you keeping?” Ialai asked. “What happened to your uncle’s grand talk of unification?” “I suspect that each monarch in this room,” Jasnah said, “would prefer to know that state secrets are allowed to remain their own. This is an alliance, not a wedding.” Quote Kaladin set his jaw, then turned and stalked away—right up the steps toward the high deck. They weren’t supposed to go up there, but sometimes rules didn’t seem to apply to Kaladin Stormblessed. Quote “Babsk, you are a romantic. Don’t tell me you believe that old story?” “One can believe in a story without believing it happened.” Quote “Relax, grandpa. Steal the rock. I can do that.” She took a deep breath, then exploded with Stormlight. Her eyes turned a pearly, glowing white. “It’s just us two, then?” “Yes.” “Right. Good luck with the army.” Quote Adolin peeked around the corner, expecting to find another stone monster like the one that had climbed into the Ancient Ward. Instead, he found only Jasnah Kholin, looking completely nonplussed. A glow faded around her, different from the smoke of her Stormlight. Like geometric shapes outlining her... All right then. Jasnah didn’t need help. Quote “Everything I’ve done,” Amaram said, blinking red eyes, “I’ve done for Alethkar. I’m a patriot!” “If that is true,” Kaladin whispered, “why do you still hurt?” Amaram screamed, charging him. Kaladin raised Syl, who became a Shardblade. “Today, what I do, I do for the men you killed. I am the man I’ve become because of them.” (...) "Ten spears go to battle,” he whispered, “and nine shatter. Did that war forge the one that remained? No, Amaram. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.” Edited December 3, 2017 by Ailvara 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Wax he/him Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 (edited) The below quote is from Chapter 105 Spirit Mind and Body, probably the best chapter of the book based on prose. The second best although the most striking one was Chapter 75 Only Red. Going through the re-reads, this one is really a hidden gem from Chapter 105. Superb writing here. I've quoted the full section, but I'll highlight for emphasis. Quote Get out of my head! All of you, get out! In the distance, a voice . . . “You must find the most important words a man can say.” Which key was it? He got one into the lock, but it wouldn’t turn. He couldn’t see. He blinked, feeling dizzy. “Those words came to me from one who claimed to have seen the future,” the voice said, echoing in the hallway. Feminine, familiar. “ ‘How is this possible?’ I asked in return. ‘Have you been touched by the void?’ “The reply was laughter. ‘No, sweet king. The past is the future, and as each man has lived, so must you.’ “ ‘So I can but repeat what has been done before?’ “ ‘In some things, yes. You will love. You will hurt. You will dream. And you will die. Each man’s past is your future.’ “ ‘Then what is the point?’ I asked. ‘If all has been seen and done?’ “ ‘The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.’ ” Dalinar dropped the keys again, sobbing. There was no escape. He would fall again. Wine would consume him like a fire consumed a corpse. Leaving only ash. There was no way out. “This started my journey,” the voice said. “And this begins my writings. I cannot call this book a story, for it fails at its most fundamental to be a story. It is not one narrative, but many. And though it has a beginning, here on this page, my quest can never truly end. “I wasn’t seeking answers. I felt that I had those already. Plenty, in multitude, from a thousand different sources. I wasn’t seeking ‘myself.’ This is a platitude that people have ascribed to me, and I find the phrase lacks meaning. “In truth, by leaving, I was seeking only one thing. “A journey.” For years, it seemed that Dalinar had been seeing everything around him through a haze. But those words . . . something about them . . . Could words give off light? 2 Even more impactful in the audiobook version. Edited January 4, 2018 by Wax Edit: re audiobook comment 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoomsday he/him Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 All I can think about was NO MATING! That quote is even better than the infamous I am a stick. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nymeros Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing. Law is light and darkness does not serve it. Ask and I will answer. -Nale is the Man. I will take responsibility for what I have done. If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man. -words that touched me personally. Now THAT is a worthy ideal. You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced. I love tradition. I've fought for tradition. I make my men follow the codes. I uphold Vorin virtues. But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right. One can believe in a story without believing it happened. Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down. Every moment in our lives seems trivial. Most are forgotten while some, equally humble, become the points upon which history pivots. Like white on black. The question is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path. You Cryptics mimic … weird stuff? The fundamental underlying mathematics by which natural phenomena occur. Mmm. Truths that explain the fabric of existence. Some men, as they age, grow kinder. I am not one of those, for I have seen how the cosmere can mistreat the innocent—and that leaves me disinclined toward kindness. Some men, as they age, grow wiser. I am not one of those, for wisdom and I have always been at cross-purposes, and I have yet to learn the tongue in which she speaks. Some men, as they age, grow more cynical. I, fortunately, am not one of those. If I were, the very air would warp around me, sucking in all emotion, leaving only scorn. Other men … other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazenella he/him Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 This exchange is great Quote Patter approached and tried to slide up her illusory dress, but then stopped, backing away and humming in pleasure at the lie. "I found him!" he proclaimed. "I found Adolin! "I see that," Shallan said "He came at me," Adolin said, "In the training rooms, screaming that you'd found the killer. Said that if I didn't come, you'd probably - and I quote - 'go do something stupid without letting me watch.'" Pattern hummed, "Stupidity. Very interesting." "You should visit the Alethi court sometime." Also... Quote "I'm still wearing one of their forms," Venli said. "There was a Voidspren in my gemheart. How?" Timbre pulsed to Resolve "You've done what?" Venli hissed, stopping on the deck. Resolve again. "But how can you..." She trailed off, then hunched over, speaking more softly. "How can you keep a Voidspren captive?" Timbre pulsed to Victory within her. I'm not sure if this is just me but I imagine an innocent looking smiling Timbre with a Voidspren at gunpoint 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MothersMilkInACup Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 "Mmmm. I don't like being stabbed." "Wise words friend, wise words." 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalbusker he/him Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 Punchy. Guys. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subvisual Haze Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 Quote Renarin stepped in and hugged him. Dalinar flinched, bracing as if for a punch. The boy clung to him, not letting him go. "They talk about you," Renarin said, "but they're wrong. You just need to rest, after all the fighting you did. I know. And I miss her too." Dalinar licked his lips. "What did she tell you?" he said, voice ragged. "What did your mother say about me?" "The only honest officer in the army," Renarin said, "the honorable solider. Noble, like the Herald themselves. Our father. The greatest man in Alethkar." What stupid words. Yet Dalinar found himself weeping. Renarin let go, but Darlinar grabbed him, pulling him close. I'm incapable of reading that section without tearing up a little. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoomsday he/him Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 13 hours ago, Subvisual Haze said: I'm incapable of reading that section without tearing up a little. I also liked that section. Just made me love Renarin even more xD. (Please give Renarin more screen time. He's not my favorite character in the series (Kaladin, Wit) but he's still cool, and I feel like he has been shoved into the background for pretty much everything except the OB climax) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subvisual Haze Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 1 hour ago, TheDoomsday said: I also liked that section. Just made me love Renarin even more xD. (Please give Renarin more screen time. He's not my favorite character in the series (Kaladin, Wit) but he's still cool, and I feel like he has been shoved into the background for pretty much everything except the OB climax) Knowing their emotionally distant pasts makes Dalinar and Renarin's current scenes even more poignant. Just the little stuff like Dalinar showing up at the scholar meeting to give emotional support to Renarin or Renarin putting his hand on Dalinar's shoulder when he's feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world are really sweet and powerful. They're stoic and introverted characters respectively when it comes to emotionally expressing themselves, but they clearly care about each other. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drag0nR3born Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 (edited) I love the following : "Ten spears go to battle,” he whispered, “and nine shatter. Did that war forge the one that remained? No, Amaram. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.” But probably my favorite is: "I will protect those I hate. Even … even if the one I hate most … is … myself" There are few things that I can imagine that would be harder to say. Most people deep down think they are a good person. To admit that you don't think you are a good person and that you truly hate yourself but you will fight anyway.....man. Wow Teft. Just wow. Edited January 4, 2018 by Drag0nR3born 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormingTexan he/him Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 “We lift the bridge together, Teft,” Kaladin said. “And we carry it.” 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borio Singaldi he/him Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 How about the one with maybe potentially the greatest cosmere implications? Odium: "No, we killed you! WE KILLED YOU!" Definitely one to remember. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic he/him Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 I really like what Dalinar yells at Fen when he first brings her into a vision Quote “All the good men are dead. All you have left is me” But it can’t beat my favorite quote from Lift Quote “If someone thinks I’m weird for talking about butts it’s because they’re jealous ‘cause I’m the only one without something rammed up mine” 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazenella he/him Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 20 hours ago, Drag0nR3born said: I love the following : "Ten spears go to battle,” he whispered, “and nine shatter. Did that war forge the one that remained? No, Amaram. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.” HOLY JEEBUS THAT IS PARALLELING TALN AND THE HERALDS 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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