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

“A man is what he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.”

“Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.”

“What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?""Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire.""But, I saw-""What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.""What does the story mean, then?""It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”

“I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?”

“You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know."Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. Wethreatened to kill you if you didn't!”

“In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.”