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

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.

This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should, ” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.

Are you making life or is life making you?

Every great finish was once a simple beginning. Start now.