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Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

Brandon Sanderson

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. “I don’t get it, El. Why’d she attack him?” “She’s loony,” Spook said.
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Ham Pouring Sitting Down
The wood bounced off the man’s helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.
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Dropped Followed Hamlet Soldier
Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
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Darkness Dull Evil
I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.
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Betrayal Hurt Pain
Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that’s why there’s so much training. The ones who hold aren’t the courageous ones, they’re the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.
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Army Princess Running
She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another’s problems before your own.
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Humble Taken Teaching
I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.
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Brain Needs Thinking
There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives.” “And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?” “That’s like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can’t protect by killing.
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Defend People Protect Son Two
Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards…Honestly, Kell, I’d nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. “Foolhardy?” Kelsier asked with a laugh. “that wasn’t foolhardy – that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things
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House Laughing Years
The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you’ll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can’t simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
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Character Hands Interesting
How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn’t occur in the present day?
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Carefully Occur Present Day
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
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Important Mean Victory
Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. “Does nothing frighten you, sule?” “Actually, pretty much everything here does.
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Cobblestone Everything Nothing Trying
Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
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Absence Discomfort Joy
Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain.
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Interesting Leadership Two
imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.
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People Real Substance

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