Morality is an axis that doesn't interest us - Brandon Sanderson

Funny, isn't it, how so many of our stories start the same way, but have opposing endings? In half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders. There aren't many stories about the kids who say, 'Yes, I shall not go into the forest. I'm glad my parents explained that is where the monsters live.'

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Every army needed someone to run at the front and soak up arrows.