I’m doing a reread of this series for a few reasons:
- The series is long, and I wanted to do a recap before reading Wind and Truth (which comes out December, 2024.
- The only highlights I was able to recover from my first read through were from Dawnshard and Rhythm of War. I wasn’t able to recover much from The Way of Kings.
- The series is just so damn good.
This series is a masterpiece so far. Definitely the best fantasy series going at the moment. Every book is a 5/5 for me (though I haven’t read Wind and Truth yet).
While every book is quite long, it’s very much worth it. I’d highly recommend giving it a go
Highlights
They were elegant things of beauty, Darkness had said. They could ride the thinnest rope, dance across rooftops, move like a ribbon on the wind.…
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 66 | Location 691-692 2024-09-19 12:34:19
“We’re not … Lift, we’re spren, but my kind—cultivationspren—are not very important. We don’t have a kingdom, or even cities, of our own. We only moved to bond with you because the Cryptics and the honorspren and everyone were starting to move. Oh, we’ve jumped right into the sea of glass feet-first, but we barely know what we’re doing! Everyone who had any idea of how to accomplish all this died centuries ago!”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 78 | Location 826-830 2024-09-19 12:40:28
The tarp on the man’s wagon was rustling. Frowning, Hauka whipped it backward, and found a young girl neck-deep in the grain. She had light brown skin—like she was Reshi, or maybe Herdazian—and was probably eleven or twelve years old.
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 87 | Location 936-938 2024-09-19 16:37:48
“Did you know we were considering bonding this nice cobbler man instead of you? A very kindly man who took care of children. I could have lived quietly, helping him, making shoes. I could have done an entire display of shoes!”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 99 | Location 1057-1059 2024-09-19 23:36:37
“It’s worse when they think they’re your friend. Gawx, the viziers. They make assumptions. They think they know you, then start to expect things of you. Then you have to be the person everyone thinks you are, not the person you actually are.”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 104 | Location 1115-1117 2024-09-19 23:39:36
If you actually traded food, everyone would eat up all their money and then where would society be?
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 109 | Location 1166-1167 2024-09-19 23:42:49
“It is difficult to be the one that handles everyone else’s problems.”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 115 | Location 1229-1230 2024-09-20 15:38:52
“Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 119 | Location 1274-1275 2024-09-20 15:41:23
If the bonds between men and spren are reignited, then men will naturally discover the greater power of the oaths. Without Honor to regulate this, there is a small chance that what comes next will allow the Voidbringers to again make the jump between worlds. That would cause a Desolation, and even a small chance that the world will be destroyed is a risk that we cannot take. Absolute fidelity to the mission Ishar gave us—the greater law of protecting Roshar—is required.”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 151 | Location 1616-1620 2024-09-20 16:31:34
“Everything is changing,” she said softly. “That’s okay. Stuff changes. It’s just that, I’m not supposed to. I asked not to. She’s supposed to give you what you ask.” “The Nightwatcher?” Wyndle asked. Lift nodded, feeling small, cold.
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 161 | Location 1726-1728 2024-09-20 23:33:17
“Mik,” the boy said. He looked at her, confused, as if searching—and failing—to figure out who she was. “We … friends?” “Nope,” Lift said. “You don’t wanna be my friend. My friends end up as emperors.”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 163 | Location 1749-1751 2024-09-20 23:34:49
You knew the truth of the world even when you went and asked not to get older. Being young was an excuse. A plausible justification.
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 208 | Location 2257-2258 2024-09-21 23:25:32
When you were always busy, you didn’t have to think about stuff.
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 209 | Location 2263-2263 2024-09-21 23:25:59
“Will you fight them, little Radiant?” the assassin asked. “You, alone, against two journeyman Skybreakers? A Herald waiting in the wings?”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 216 | Location 2345-2346 2024-09-21 23:31:01
“What do you know about Darkness and his plans?” Lift demanded. “And Radiants, and Voidbringers, and everything?” “That’s quite the exhaustive list,” he said. “And I confess, I am the wrong one to ask. My siblings are more interested in you Radiants. If you ever encounter another of the Sleepless, tell them you’ve spoken with Arclo. I’m certain it will gain you sympathy.”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 234 | Location 2534-2538 2024-09-22 21:26:42
The Sleepless creature met her eyes, then sighed. “We will speak again another time. Like Nale, I am not one to leave tasks unfinished.”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 239 | Location 2592-2593 2024-09-22 21:30:03
“I don’t know what to do,” Lift said. “Say the Words,” Wyndle said from beside her. “I’ve said them, in my heart.” But what good would they do?
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 250 | Location 2708-2710 2024-09-22 21:39:53
“I will listen,” Lift shouted, “to those who have been ignored!” “What?” Darkness demanded. “I heard what you said, Darkness! You were trying to prevent the Desolation. Look behind you! Deny what you’re seeing!”
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 252 | Location 2733-2735 2024-09-22 21:41:18
Lift scrunched up her face at the woman, then thrust her hand to the side and summoned Wyndle in the shape of a large, shimmering, silvery fork. A Shardfork, if you would.
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 258 | Location 2795-2796 2024-09-22 21:44:35
But I will listen to those who are ignored, she thought. Even people like Darkness, whom I’d rather never have heard. Maybe that will help.
<Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)>(Sanderson, Brandon) Highlight on page 263 | Location 2855-2856 2024-09-22 21:47:55