If we stop helping people because we__e afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I__l stop them.

She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him.

You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

And are you going to explain why you consider competing with me to be the most sincere form of compliment?_ __f course I am,_ Lightsong said. __y dear, have you ever known me to make an inflammatorily ridiculous statement without providing an equally ridiculous explanation to substantiate it?_ __f course not,_ she agreed. __ou are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic._ __ am rather exceptional in that regard.

He didn__ recruit me,_ Cett pointed out. __ got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco.___ wish I cared enough to apologize,_ Elend said, staring at them.

Heavens, no," Wax said. "If I approved of half the thngs Wayne does, Harmony would probably strike me on the spot.