reticent

“I don’t know,” Vin said. “Once maybe I would have thought you a fool, but … well, that’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren’t going to hurt you.”

But then, there is the peace. I feel it sometimes, as I do now, staring out over the frozen cliffs and glass mountains in the still of morning, watching a sunrise so majestic that I know none shall ever be its match.

None of them could see Vin, they could only see the face she had put on—the face she wanted them to see. They saw Lady Valette. It was as if Vin weren’t there. As if … she were hiding, hiding right in front of their eyes.

“My dear friend,” Breeze replied, “the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”

affable

New tastes are like new ideas, young man—the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.”

Already Kelsier could see the mists beginning to form, clouding the air, and giving the moundlike buildings a surreal, intangible look.

“the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”