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Rushu was brilliant, but like a sphere, she tended to shine in all directions unless carefully focused.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 1646-1647 2020-11-28 00:34:18
“They’re going to die, you know,” Moash said softly. “Shut up.” “Everyone you love, everyone you think you can protect. They’re all going to die anyway. There’s nothing you can do about it.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 2209-2212 2020-11-30 01:29:03
“Nalathis. Scadarial. Tal Dain. Do you recognize any of those?”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 2554-2555 2020-12-01 00:54:08
“I didn’t know there were so many books in the world,” Syl said. “Won’t they use up all the words? Seems like eventually you’d say everything that could be said!”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 5036-5037 2020-12-09 00:32:53
“It will be done,” he said, taking the box. “This is genius, Brightness. Truly.” She smiled. They liked to say that, and she appreciated the sentiment. The truth was, she merely knew how to harness the genius of others—as she was hoping to harness the storm.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 5244-5247 2020-12-10 00:41:25
If Taravangian killed a child, he’d do it not for vengeance. Not for fury. Not for wealth or renown. But because he sincerely thought the child’s death was necessary.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 5463-5465 2020-12-10 00:58:10
He would acknowledge it as evil, would say it stains his soul. He says … that’s the point of having a monarch. A man to wallow in blood, to be stained by it and destroyed by it, so that others might not suffer.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 5465-5467 2020-12-10 00:58:19
The storm was a single voice. A majestic, powerful voice singing a song with its own harmonies
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 5548-5549 2020-12-10 01:07:26
“Your abilities are what made the original Oathpact,” she said. “And they existed—and were named—long before the Knights Radiant were founded. A Bondsmith Connected the Heralds to Braize, made them immortal, and locked our enemies away. A Bondsmith bound other Surges and brought humans to Roshar, fleeing their dying world. A Bondsmith created—or at least discovered—the Nahel bond: the ability of spren and humans to join together into something better. You Connect things, Dalinar. Realms. Ideas. People.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 5614-5618 2020-12-10 01:11:45
There was a weakness here. In the division between the Vessel and the Shard.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 5704-5705 2020-12-11 00:54:44
“Zahel told me,” Adolin said, “that he always considered himself a coward for training soldiers. He said that if he truly believed in stopping war, he’d walk away from the sword completely.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 6078-6079 2020-12-12 00:28:02
Whimsy was not terribly useful, and Mercy worries me. I do think that Valor is reasonable, and suggest you approach her again. It has been too long, in her estimation, since your last conversation.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 6909-6911 2020-12-16 23:43:30
The other Cryptics were impressed by my bravery.” “Yes, very brave,” Shallan said. “We humans are known to bite.” “Ha ha. Yes, bite. And break your oaths and murder your spren. Ha ha.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 7204-7206 2020-12-19 00:50:34
have begun searching for a pathway out of this conundrum by seeking the ideal person to act on my behalf. Someone who embodies both Preservation and Ruin. A … sword, you might say, who can both protect and kill.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 7817-7819 2020-12-22 01:30:08
“These Radiants won’t do what those of the past did,” Adolin said. “Look, for thousands of years before the Recreance, spren and humans got along. Will we let one event wipe that all out?” “One event?” Notum said. “One event that caused eight genocides, Prince Adolin. Pause and think on that. Nearly every honorspren was bound, and those were all killed. Can you imagine the betrayal?
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 8267-8271 2020-12-23 01:45:27
“Your people are criminals. The sole reason there was no swift retribution was because you killed every spren who could have acted against you.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 8275-8276 2020-12-23 01:45:56
“The squad is stronger than the individual,” Kaladin said. “You simply need to get them pointed in the right direction. Get them to lift the bridge together…”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 8593-8594 2020-12-25 23:50:36
In a hopeless situation, it’s easy to convince one another to give up.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 8597-8598 2020-12-25 23:50:58
Realizing that no matter how isolated you thought you were, no matter how often your brain told you terrible things, there were others who understood. It wouldn’t fix everything. But it was a start.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 8608-8610 2020-12-25 23:52:04
The golden-haired woman leaned back and shrugged. “I’m not one for politics. I’ll tell them they’re being storming stupid if they think they can ride this.” “Your people are trying to ride it,” Godeke said. “My people are storming stupid,” Zu said, shrugging again.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 8642-8645 2020-12-25 23:54:36
“Not all spren were imagined by men, Adolin Kholin,” Notum called to him. “Farewell.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 8718-8719 2020-12-25 23:58:44
“It was war,” Rlain said. “Is that an excuse?” she asked. “An explanation,” Teft said. “One used to explain too much,” Syl said, wrapping her arms around herself and growing smaller than usual. “It’s war, you say. Nothing to be done about it. You act like it’s as inevitable as the sun and storms. But it’s not. You don’t have to kill each other.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 9732-9736 2020-12-27 01:02:35
Passion is nothing without a plan. Wanting something doesn’t make it happen.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 10877-10878 2020-12-29 00:05:27
“How remarkable,” he said. “If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won’t stand up for you.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 12954-12955 2021-01-03 00:52:44
When good men disobeyed, it was time to look at your orders.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 13405-13406 2021-01-05 01:34:57
Eventually Dalinar had done what any good commander did when faced by such persistent mass insubordination: He backed down. When good men disobeyed, it was time to look at your orders.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 13404-13406 2021-01-05 01:35:03
“Any information—even if you suspect your enemy is feeding it to you—is useful, son. More wars are lost to lack of information than are lost to lack of courage.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 13428-13429 2021-01-06 01:12:11
Just a worry in the back of my mind that I keep circling around to. Like … I have a present I want to open, and I get excited for a little while—only to remember I already opened it and there was nothing inside.” “Sounds like how I used to feel when I remembered Tien was dead,” Kaladin said. “I’d get used to living life as normal, feeling good—only to be reminded by seeing a rock in the rain, or by seeing a wooden carving like the ones he used to do. Then my whole day would come crashing down.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 13547-13551 2021-01-06 01:22:44
Time. It was a sadistic master. It made adults of children—then gleefully, relentlessly, stole away everything it had given.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 14893-14894 2021-01-09 14:21:29
In the end, loss and victory smelled the same. They sounded different though. Cheers drifted on the wind. Human voices, with an edge to them. These weren’t cheers of joy, more cheers of relief.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 15289-15291 2021-01-09 18:36:01
“Never take casualty reports on the night of the battle, Brightness,” he said. “Give yourself a little time to enjoy the meal before you look at the bill.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on Location 15304-15306 2021-01-09 18:39:20
To enjoy easy days, sometimes you had to first do difficult things.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on page 838 | Location 16842-16842 2021-01-14 01:00:41
“Nothing is real,” Wit said. “At least by one measure of philosophy. So enjoy what you seem to be able to eat and don’t complain.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on page 912 | Location 18352-18353 2021-01-16 00:55:28
“It won’t be like that for me,” Kaladin said. “You told me it would get worse.” “It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on page 920 | Location 18554-18558 2021-01-16 01:10:07
He didn’t like it when people used the word “stupid” for the way he was. People called one another stupid when they made mistakes. Dabbid wasn’t a mistake. He could make mistakes. Then he was stupid. But not always. He couldn’t think fast like others. But that made him different, not stupid. Stupid was a choice.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on page 952 | Location 19165-19167 2021-01-17 00:50:21
You had to be brave, even when you thought nobody was watching. That was what the spren wanted. They didn’t care how old you were, if your eyes were dark, or if the bowls you made were lopsided. They wanted you to be brave.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on page 1060 | Location 21270-21272 2021-01-22 00:43:30
In her lifetime studying history, Jasnah had been guided by two principles. First, that she must cut through the biases of the historians in order to understand the past. Second, that only in understanding the past could she properly prepare for the future.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on page 1077 | Location 21517-21519 2021-01-22 01:00:27
Some people charged toward the goal, running for all they had. Others stumbled. But it wasn’t the speed that mattered. It was the direction they were going.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on page 1097 | Location 21930-21932 2021-01-24 23:40:43
“I have always known these Words.” Say it, lad! Do it! “I accept it, Stormfather! I accept that there will be those I cannot protect!” The storm rumbled, and he felt warmth surrounding him, Light infusing him. He heard Syl gasp, and a familiar voice, not the Stormfather’s. THESE WORDS ARE ACCEPTED.
<Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Your Highlight on page 1140 | Location 22758-22762 2021-01-27 18:49:37