Szeth Way Quotes

#1. The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

Reginald Innes Pocock

#2. If "best years ahead" is the answer, then "things stupid people say" is the question.

Gena Showalter

#3. His eyes took in the details of my body with a conflicted gaze that I knew well: even having seen all the facts of the case, he still wanted me. He wanted me despite knowing what that meant about him.

Alissa Nutting

#4. At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life
at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.

Abelardo Morell

#5. Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, sat atop the highest tower in the world and contemplated the End of All Things.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Pierre Omidyar

#7. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

Lee Tergesen

#8. There was a time when love was the law.
There was a time for the tooth and the claw,
Last rites given, no holds barred.
Heaven express on my credit card.

Jethro Tull

#9. White clothing for a killer was a tradition among the Parshendi. Although Szeth had not asked, his masters had explained why.
White to be bold. White to not blend into the night. White to give warning.
For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. All men of honor are alone.

F. Paul Wilson

#11. Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Henepola Gunaratana

#12. Szeth could feel the Light's warmth, its fury, like a tempest that had been injected directly into his veins. The power of it was invigorating but dangerous. It pushed him to act. To move. To strike.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. Consequences aren't always physical. Not the ones that hurt the most anyway.

Nicole Deese

#14. There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration - without envy.

Kathryn Budig

#15. ... the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.

Thomas Fuller

#16. A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Aeschylus

#17. How do those people who don't read books plug the gaps in their day? The journeys, the break-times, the evenings when the telly is crap, the time in bed before sleep arrives?

Robert Craig

#18. To Szeth's people, a dying request was sacred.

Brandon Sanderson