In the second half we weren't blocking as well up front.


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He came at me,” Adolin said, “in the training rooms, screaming that you’d found the killer. Sa...
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Love wasn’t about being right or wrong, but about standing up and helping when your partner’s ba...
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I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man
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I don’t hate you, Pattern,” Shallan said. “I hate the sword.” “But—” “The sword isn�...
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You want to change the world, Shallan. That’s well and good. But be careful. The world predates yo...
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He quivered on the ground his face pressed to the stone and didn’t rise.
“Did you… did y...
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If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art.
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The best indication of what human beings will do is not what they think, but what the record says si...
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Sequels always have to be bigger.
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Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing...
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Dalinar Kholin was a connoisseur of death.
Even since his youth, the sight of dead men had been...
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You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, th...
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Life was about momentum. Pick a direction and don't let anything—man or storm— turn you a...
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Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.
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What a surreal sensation, being back here, being treated like he was still the boy who had left for ...
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You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with c...
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The old Words must be spoken again.
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I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will ris...
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Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to s...
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Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero?
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To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the mos...
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The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but i...
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Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.
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NO MATING
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Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.
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The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, wh...
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There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...
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Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good ...
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I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith,...
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What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set asid...
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It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm...
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I wanted to move. I needed to move. But in those moments, I could more easily have lifted a s...
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Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting sati...
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That caravan looks as if it’s all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater.”
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Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his bo...
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Oh, thank you, I thought, feeling an overwhelming sense of relief. Dancing was stressful—but murde...
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Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't h...
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Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly fo...
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Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we pa...
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There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so." BRANDON SANDERSON Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasna...
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As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”
“Wow...,” I breathed.
She ...
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Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open.
"And he makes h...
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Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so yourse...
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You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?"
"I suppose."
"AR-15?"
"Ugh. AR-15...
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Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They'r...
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I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each...
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You've never heard of bagpipes?" Cody asked, sounding aghast. "They're as Scottish as kilts a...
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One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, i...
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Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?"
"I consider...
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