Wind and Truth: The brand new epic Stormlight Archive novel from the international bestseller

He felt it an important one, for him. An oath could be broken, but a promise? A promise stood as long as you were still trying. A promise understood that sometimes your best wasn’t enough. A promise cried with you when all went to Damnation. A promise came to help when you could barely stand. Because a promise knew that sometimes, being there was all you could offer.

There is no need to trust someone who couldn’t hurt you

In nothing does mankind so closely approach the divine as in the creation of codes to better itself

Because truth is just the lie that happened

“Prey can only ever run. It can survive, but it can never win. Not so long as the predator lives.

It’s not the gambling itself that got me. It’s that I built up how it would feel to win, only to come crashing down each time, leaving me feeling like I’d missed out on something I was owed. That made me dull to everything else.

“You know what first drew me to you, Kaladin?” Wit asked. “You did one of the most difficult things a man can do: you gave yourself a second chance.”

virtue is something that is valuable even if it gives you nothing. A virtue persists without payment or compensation. Positive thinking is great. Vital. Useful. But it has to remain so even if it gets you nothing. Belief, truth, honor … if these exist only to get you something, you’ve missed the storming point.”

If we never had the power to do terrible things, then what heroism would it be to resist?