“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.”
“There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
“For introverts, who have limited energy for interaction, we need to be more thoughtful and deliberate about whom we meet—which, happily, is what we do best.”
“We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love of god whom they don't believe in.”
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”
“Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.”