Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everything better.

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.

She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

He didn’t recruit me, ” Cett pointed out. “I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco.”“I wish I cared enough to apologize, ” Elend said, staring at them.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was a real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep.

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible.

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

The one in front of the gun lives forever

My father was not a political animal.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.