I’d hoped…I’d hoped you could tell me, give me an absolute right. For once, I’d like my moral code not to come with a list of exceptions at the end. - Brandon Sanderson

Morality is not a thing you can simply doff to put on the helm of battle, then put back on when you’re done with the slaughter.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

The ardents who passed through town were careful to explain that the Calling of a farmer was a noble one, one of the highest save for the Calling of a soldier. Kal’s father whispered under his breath that he saw far more honor in feeding the kingdom than he did in fighting and dying in useless wars.