Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive

The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

Beyond it, Odium stumbled back. So small, Dalinar thought. Has he always looked that small?

“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”

‘The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.’

The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.

“But sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”

Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I’ve practiced.”

merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right.”

“Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero?”