Venli

I'm almost totally uninterested with the various Fused politics. It was interesting to see the dynamic between Leshwi and Raboniel but it ultimately amounted to very little. Why was so much time spent on the particularities of the tower occupation?

Kaladin

Dalinar

Navani

Shallan

Misc

I wish we had more time to learn about the Sibling and the tower. After spending most of the book with it occupied it feels like with a snap of the fingers everything was righted off screen. We never see Teft's funeral, or Lift finding her spren, etc

I'm worried that the next book is going to be 1500 pages and only cover the span of 10 days

It was very satisfying to watch Navani come into her own after being so brutally crushed by Gavilar. All the scenes where she was experimenting were really fun to read and it felt like her becoming the second bondsmith was very earned. Really looking forward to see how her and the Sibling influence each other.

Everything to do with Mala, Adolin, and the honorspren trial. Though mostly predictable it was still very satisfying to read.

Really loved Adolin's arc for this book.

Teft, literally everything with Teft

Shallan and the 3 were very interesting to read and I really didn't see the twist coming of her having a second spren. Her starting to focus on the larger Cosmere has a lot of exciting implications.

I like how Dalinar and Jasnah are working together and both toppling stereotypes

The relationship between Jasnah and Wit is weird but compelling.

Everything to do with the Heralds and the bits of surgebinding lore we learned were very cool.

The twist at the end with Odium being usurped I didn't see coming at all but ultimately doesn't seem to have made a huge impact except Odium is a bit smarter now?

Raboniel was such a well developed character.

Very interested to delve more into the Cosmere implications and the beginning of the battle between shards/gods. It'll be so interesting to see how Sanderson starts to crossover his different novels.

A good lie, the delicious kind, hinted at hidden grandeur or further secrets.

Nobody pushed him, though he wished that one of them would.

She was just curious, desirous to learn. If that was childlike, then everyone needed more of it.

If you forget why you are fighting, then victory itself becomes the goal.

she would hurt, but she would move forward

A woman needs constant reminders. She needs to know that she has his heart, even when she cannot have his company.

"He's different, isn't he?" Syl said. "Worse, because his own mind fights against him." "Different, yes," Dalinar said, leaning on the railing next to her. "But who is to say what is worse or better? We each have our own Voidbringers to slay, Brightness Sylphrena. No man can judge another man's heart or trials, for no man can truly know them."

Remember the peace you have felt ... Don't be sorry for yourself. Be excited for the new path forward you're making.

You need someone to talk to, ... when the darkness is strong. Someone to remind you the world hasn't always been this way; that it won't always be this way.

You're always willing to give others more charity than you extend yourself.

if a tool seemed broken at first glance, perhaps you were simply applying it to the wrong task.

He was glad she thought that, wrong though she was. They were sympathetic, but they didn't understand.

I simply feel it's important to recognize that she might have had reasons. We all have reasons why we fail to live up to what we should be....

No one ever accomplished anything by being content with who they were,

We accomplish great things by reaching toward who we could become.

bad assumptions are the last failing of many dead

We need to remember the past, ... We need to remember what we passed through to get here. We need to take care not to forget ourselves.

Do not dismiss your own talents because you envy those of another.

One is never wrong to question

If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you.

We must not let our desires for a specific result cloud our perceptions.

If there is a god, then I think we could find him in the way we care about one another

Sometimes when you go to a place you've never been, it can be wonderful ... because it lets you be someone else. No expectations.

If we can choose, we can change. If we can't change, then choice means nothing.

When I'm at my worst, I feel like I can't change. Like I've never changed. That I've always felt this way, and always will.

The best and truest duty of a person is to add to the world. To create, and not destroy.

She did want to know. As always, questions teased her. Questions were disorder awaiting organization. The more you understood, the more the world aligned. The more the chaos made sense, as all things should.

You know better than I what your limits are," Wit said. "It's not such a terrible thing, to be too weak. Makes us need one another. I should never complain if someone recognizes their failings

Stupidity and ignorance are not the same thing,

Most people want to be helpful, ... Even if they need a nudge now and then.

Confusion can mean you have realized your weaknesses.

Our weakness doesn't make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong. For we had to carry it all these years.

a chaotic universe meant the only actions of actual importance were the ones they decided were important.

the place between moments

They needed to keep moving forward. And that involved deciding what he was going to do with himself, now that the crisis had ended.

If you aren't going to say much, then you might as well make what you do say mean something.