33 Quotes About Shallan-davar

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

I can see what you’re up to.”“Five foot six inches,” Shallan said. “I suspect that’s all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.

When did you get so peppy?” she shouted.“Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't.”“Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while,” she snapped. “If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!

Storms, woman,” [Kaladin] said. “I don’t know what to make of you.”“Preferably not a corpse.”“I’m surprised someone hasn't already done that.

We actually killed the thing.”“Sad, I know,” she said, feeling depressed. “It was beautiful.”“It would be more beautiful if it hadn't tried to eat me.”“From my perspective,” Shallan noted, “it didn't try, it succeeded.”“Nonsense,” Kaladin said. “It didn't manage to swallow me. Doesn't count.

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.

Kaladin followed [Shallan]. What else could he do? Explain to Adolin? Yes, princeling. I let your betrothed wander off alone in the darkness to get eaten by a chasmfiend. No, I didn't go with her. Yes, I’m a coward.

I’d rather walk these chasms with a compulsive murderer than you. At least then, when the conversation got tedious, I’d have an easy way out.”“And your feet stink,” [Shallan] said. “See? Too early. I can’t possibly be witty at this hour. So no arguments.” She hesitated, then continued more softly. “Besides, no murderer would agree to accompany you. Everyone needs to have some standards, after all.

The sensation—it’s not sorrow, but something deeper—of being broken. Of being crushed so often, and so hatefully, that emotion becomes something you can only wish for. If only you could cry, because then you’d feel something. Instead, you feel nothing. Just . . . haze and smoke inside. Like you’re already dead.