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We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn’t hear, long after the music actually stopped.

Brandon Sanderson

It’s not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.
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Better Imitating Versions
Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you’ve decided to have me disposed of?
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Fashion Impeccable Jealous
Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
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Absence Discomfort Joy
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
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Bastille Keep Trying
You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away.
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Attention Rocks Some Stopped Wandered
There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location.
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Cities People Rocks
You’ve managed– in our short three years together– to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That’s kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It’s a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn’t you say?
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Brother Father Fiannce Homicidal Years
…somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
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Boring Philosopher Topics
Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.
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Fate People Reading Relaxing Tea
That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.
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Arriving Funny Said Things
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn’t beaten.
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Grief Lord Men
It’s all right Wayne,” Waxillium said softly. “I’ve made a promise. I told Lord Harms I’d return Steris to him. And I will. That is that.” “Then I will remain and help,” Marasi said. “That is that.” “And I could really use some food,” Wayne added. “Fat is fat.
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Promise Return Use
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.
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Death Journey Weakness
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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Delusion Kind Self
That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
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Faces Hats Looks
Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?
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Consequences Doe Done Evil

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