I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everything better.

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

He didn’t recruit me, ” Cett pointed out. “I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco.”“I wish I cared enough to apologize, ” Elend said, staring at them.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.

Discouragement is your greatest enemy

I this world we are surrounded with problems and to succeed one needs to learn skills on how to solve problems

The dragon marking rested, his fangs concealed and his eyes shut. "Your dragon is pleased, " she said. "Indeed, he is.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

Health to the ocean means health for us.

the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you. You need to have lips - they are important for getting men.

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.