#mycosmerereread

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Yes, it would have taken a man of supreme will to resist Ruin even slightly while bearing the spikes of an Inquisitor.

The Hero of Ages, 456

Maaaaarsh!

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Who was she? How did she define herself now that everything she’d been, and everything she’d tried, had collapsed around her? She couldn’t be Vivenna the confident princess anymore. That person was dead, left behind in that cellar with Parlin’s bloody corpse. Her confidence had come from naïveté.

Warbreaker, 500

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“Because I realized that you trusted me,” Vin said. “Trusted me as nobody ever has before. On that night, when I fought Zane, I decided that I had to give my trust to you. This force that’s destroying the world, we have something that it can never understand. I don’t necessarily need your help; I need your trust. Your hope. It’s something I’ve never had of myself, and I rely on yours.”

The Hero of Ages, 192

This was one of the best aspects of book 2--the importance of trust in human relationships, despite the risks therin.

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“You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I’ve claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.”

The Hero of Ages, 395

Oh, shit.

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If Elend had waited just a few more minutes on that ashen field, he would have seen a body—short of stature, black hair, prominent nose—fall from the mists and slump dead into the ash. As it was, the corpse was left alone to be buried in ash. The world was dying. Its gods had to die with it.

The Hero of Ages, 386

How is this so sad???

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Every religion had clues in it, for the faiths of men contained the hopes, loves, wishes, and lives of the people who had believed them...

...The religions in my portfolio weren’t useless after all, he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They weren’t all true. But they all had truth.

The Hero of Ages, 551

Preach, Saze.

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It seemed odd to her that the weapon that had killed Kelsier would become the symbol of his followers.

The Hero of Ages, 73

A little on the nose, but this is one of my favorite aspects of the Cosmere. As someone who has been at many varying stages of belief and unbelief, I admire how Brandon's characters wrestle with faith and its importance in their lives. Ultimately, I think, faith in the Cosmere is about the beauty of being human.

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He was more comfortable with this form of Allomancy—he still hadn’t quite gotten the hang of leaping about with metals the way Vin did. Emotions, however—those he understood.

The Hero of Ages, 33