The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
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I purchased the physical copy of this book earlier this year. However, the e-book version has been has been sitting in my e-reader 'shelves' for years. Sometimes you just want to read a physical book! 🤓
It's over a 1000 pages! Love that. ⤵️
You may not know this but I will tell you now: I have always loved books and reading but it was reading an epic fantasy novel (The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks) that sky rocketed my love of reading to a whole new level.
Since it has been a while since reading an epic fantasy novel (to me Dune does not count - more SF), so I am so excited to be reading this one.
I read the Mistborn series and Elantris years ago so I know Brandon Sanderson is a great writer and feel I will love this series as well.
Quotes from The Way of Kings:
"But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety..." (pg. 22)
"You can show me. I won't tell anyone. Is it a treasure? Have you cut off a piece of the night's cloak and tucked it away? Is it the heart of a beetle, so tiny yet powerful?" (pg. 54)
"But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack." (pg. 61)
"Spit it out. Words aren't meant to be kept inside you see. They are free creatures, and if locked away will unsettle the stomach." (pg. 63)
"Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts." (pg. 87)
"'Too many of us,' she said, 'take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Wouldn't you say?'" (pg. 136)
"The room was kept neat, the shelves and table washed clean each morning, everything in its place. Lirin said you could tell a lot about a man from how he kept his workplace. Was it sloppy or orderly? Did he respect his tools or did he leave them casually about?." (pg. 153)
This is probably my favorite quote so far:
“‘…What’s happening to me? What am I?’”
‘I don’t know. Does it matter?’
‘Shouldn’t it?’
‘I don’t know what I am either. A bridgeman? A surgeon? A soldier? A slave? Those are all just labels. Inside, I’m me. A very different me that I was a year ago, but I can’t worry about that, so I just keep moving and hope my feet take me where I need to go.’” (pg. 219)