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Now, unfortunately, he knew Yomen to be a reasonable man. And one with very good arguments. In a way, his indictment of Elend was true. Elend /was/ a hypocrite. He spoke of democracy, yet he had taken his throne by force.

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 334)

/Hemalurgy is of Ruin./

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 312)

"I was jsut a bit surprised. The calculation came out to be exact--precisely sixteen percent of the soldiers fell sick. To the man."

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 207)

/I may not be Mistborn, and I may not be emperor,/ he thought.

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 145)

"The mists," Sazed said. "Fadrex City lies well beyond the mist perimeter, Emperor Venture. Will you subject your army to sixteen percent casualties before you even arrive at the city?"

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 131)

"Fadrex has to be our next goal. We can't risk missing the cache, and the things it might contain." /Like the atium,/ Reen whispered in Vin's head as she sat back down. "Atium," she said out loud.

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 129)

"He is dead," TenSoon said. "That is true. But the First Contract did not die with him! Vin, the Heir of the Survivor, was the one who killed the Lord Ruler. /She/ is our Mother now. Our First Contract is with her!"

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 119)

She left him alone in the tent. A few moments later, he returned to his shaving, and found something sitting beside his basin. A small, folded piece of paper. It contained an aged, fading drawing of a strange plant. A flower. The picture had once belonged to Mare. It had gone from her to Kelsier, and from him to Vin.

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 114)

"Imagine the effort this must have taken," Elend said, turning over a can of stewed beef in his hand. "He would have had to rotate this food every few years, constantly packing and storing new supplies. And he did it for centuries, without anyone knowing what he was doing."

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 74)

"Once, you couldn't do things like that," Vin said from a short distance away, her voice echoing in the large cavern. "Like what?" "Give a man such forceful commands," she said. "Take control away from him. You'd have wanted to give these people a vote on whether or not they should join your empire."

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 72)

/The Canzi religion contradicts itself,/ he decided, making a notation with his pen at the side of the paper.

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 54)

I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.

— The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3) (Page 23)