Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.

I," she said as the room hushed again, "know of no other conference like this in the history of Roshar. Perhaps they were common in the days of the Knights Radiant, but certainly nothing like it has occured since the Recreance. I would like to both welcome and thank you, our noble guests. Today we make history." "It only took a Desolation to cause it," Sebarial said from the food table. "The world should end more often. It makes everyone so much more accommodating.

To be human is to want that which we can not have.

Brightness Markal! What a disaster that hairstyle is; how brave of you to show it to the world

ah,the outdoors," Shallan said. "I visited that mythical place once. It was so very long ago, I've nearly forgotten it. Tell me, does the sun still shine, or is that just my dreamy recollection''Surely your studies aren't that bad.

Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm.""Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it,screaming at the top of my lungs.

There was an independence to using her own feet.

The Almighty gave us messy hair to prepare us for living with men.

I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man or woman's mind.

But merely being tradition does not make something worthy.