Szeth Quotes & Sayings

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, sat atop the highest tower in the world and contemplated the End of All Things. — Brandon Sanderson

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life ... We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence — Mikhail Bakunin

It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it. — Yvonne Pierre

She kissed him back, opening every cavern of her heart for him to explore, to own, to love. — Sarah Sundin

APPENDIX 4 THE THIEVES' LANGUAGE IN OLIVER TWIST — Charles Dickens

Szeth could feel the Light's warmth, its fury, like a tempest that had been injected directly into his veins. The power of it was invigorating but dangerous. It pushed him to act. To move. To strike. — Brandon Sanderson

She sobbed and babbled, and the pain of loneliness and fear felt even greater than the agony of her battered body. It choked the air from her lungs. She was alone. Alone with pain. And soon the mountain lion's teeth — Michael Grant

White clothing for a killer was a tradition among the Parshendi. Although Szeth had not asked, his masters had explained why.
White to be bold. White to not blend into the night. White to give warning.
For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming. — Brandon Sanderson

No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today. — Ned Vizzini

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. — Italo Calvino

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization. — Howard Gardner

What do you do when you are faced with several different gods each claiming the same territory? The Babylonian Marduk and the Greek Zeus was each considered master of the sky and king of gods. You might also decide, since they had quite different attributes, that one of them was merely invented by the priests. But if one, why not both? And so it was that the great idea arose, the realization that there might be a way to know the world without the god hypothesis; that there might be principles, forces, laws of nature, through which the world could be understood without attributing the fall of every sparrow to the direct intervention of Zeus. — Carl Sagan

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy. — Gary Shteyngart

To Szeth's people, a dying request was sacred. — Brandon Sanderson

Envy is not meant to cause hatred, but to inspire us to be more. — Brandon Lee Godbee

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield. — Jerry Coleman

Suddenly, he caught another image. — Maggie Stiefvater

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing. — Rian Johnson