digitalbusker quoted The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, #2)
Content warning Spoilers for Mistborn: The Well of Ascension
/Could it be... her?/ he wondered with shock. Many religions claimed that the dead continued to walk the world, just beyond the view of mortals. But this thing was too short to be Tindwyl. Sazed was sure that he would have recognized her, even in such an amorphous form.
— The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, #2) (92%)
It is so real and so maddening to watch such an intelligent character laid low by grief to the point where a god is trying to tell him something vital but he can't help making it about himself.