Roshar's Quotes

#1. She entered Roshar's tent. "I need your help." Blinking, he propped himself up on his bed. He said groggily, "And I need a real door. With a lock.

Marie Rutkoski

#2. Go away, little ghost. Go haunt someone else.

Marie Rutkoski

#3. The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain. It also was like an empty dance club.

Roberto Bolano

#4. Now I'm getting sad, just thinking about how it would feel to be parted from my sweet self. Lucky me: I will always have my own company.

Marie Rutkoski

#5. I had noticed, for example, how all my infatuations dissolved as soon as I really became friends with a man, became sympathetic to his problems, listened to him kvetch about his wife, or ex-wives, his mother, his children. After that I would like him, perhaps even love him - but without passion.

Erica Jong

#6. The reason you enjoy my company is because I look like how you feel.

Marie Rutkoski

#7. Beautiful," I murmured.
"I agree," Adrian said, and I saw his eyes were on me.

Richelle Mead

#8. Let Arin surprise us," Roshar said. "That's how we do things. He comes up with something brilliant and I take the credit.

Marie Rutkoski

#9. I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.

Roy Wood

#10. The general's daughter? We'd be fools not to. You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.

Marie Rutkoski

#11. Arin wished Roshar wouldn't do this, wouldn't slip on false arrogance as if it were mourning garb worn in the service of a joke.

Marie Rutkoski

#12. Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#13. The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

Rick Warren

#14. Make a conscious decision, no matter what it is, and know that that choice will have consequences.

Eddie De Jong

#15. You haven't asked me about Arin," Roshar said as he rode alongside him.
"What?"
"The tiger. Not the surly human.

Marie Rutkoski

#16. Sudden distrust slicked down Arin's spine.
Roshar raised his hand to quiet the roaring crowd, and Arin was reminded of Cheat relishing his role as an auctioneer. A stone rose in his throat. Kestrel's hand tightened on his, but Arin no longer felt wholly there.

Marie Rutkoski

#17. Because of meat."
"It's for his tiger," said the cook.
Arin palmed his face, eyes squeezed shut. "Your tiger."
"He's very particular," said Roshar.
"You can't bring the tiger to the banquet.

Marie Rutkoski

#18. No, Arin. Sit down. Other wise you'll make an ass out of yourself, and that role is mine.

Marie Rutkoski

#19. It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

Maya Angelou

#20. I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Nellie McKay

#21. I think we've always been better live.

Benmont Tench

#22. Little Arin has missed me. I will not be parted from him."
"Would you consider changing his name?"
"No."
"What if I begged?"
"Not a chance."
"Roshar, the tiger has grown."
"And what a sweet big boy he is.

Marie Rutkoski

#23. People of the hundred," he said, using an ancient Herrani phrase Arin was surprised he knew, "who leads you?"
So many cried Arin's name that it no longer sounded like his name.

Marie Rutkoski

#24. In the morning, when Roshar saw their faces he rolled his eyes. "I want my tent back," he said. Kestrel laughed. *

Marie Rutkoski

#25. I know I am lying to myself, but I also choose to believe it.

David Levithan

#26. Satan's First Law of Malignity - to wit, if the worst can happen, it usually will

Stephen King

#27. Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.

Al Stump

#28. The crowd cleared a path for them. They returned to their horses and mounted.
"See?" Roshar said, "wasn't that fun?"
Arin looked ready to shove the prince off his horse.

Marie Rutkoski

#29. Brother, you are mad," said the queen. "He loves me," Roshar protested. The cub was sleeping huddled against Rosher's leg. "And when it has grown, and is large enough to eat a man?" "Then I'll make Arin take care of him.

Marie Rutkoski