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.

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.

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.

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

A faith that is not tested is never proved trustworthy.

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

Wars have always started over religion

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested.

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.