Mistborn Elend Quotes

#1. A work in progress. And the possibilities are endless.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#2. Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

Seneca The Younger

#3. But I'd like you however you were, Vin. I love you. The question is, how do you like yourself?

Brandon Sanderson

#4. I kind of lost track of time ... "
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board.

Bear Bryant

#6. The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#7. Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.

Henry Clay Trumbull

#8. Hope is a passion for the possible.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

Cornelia Funke

#10. Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

Harvey V. Fineberg

#11. It's a mystery," Vin said, narrowing her eyes and smiling. "We Mistborn are incredibly mysterious."
Elend paused." Um ... I'm Mistborn too, Vin. That doesn't make any sense."
"We Mistborn need not make sense," Vin said." It's beneath us. Come on-the sun's already down. We need to get moving.

Brandon Sanderson