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=== Warbreaker ===
 
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|I only tell stories, Your Grace. They may be truths, they may be fictions. All I know is that the stories themselves exist and that I must tell them.
 
|I only tell stories, Your Grace. They may be truths, they may be fictions. All I know is that the stories themselves exist and that I must tell them.
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|I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was [[Yolen|a distant place where two lands meet]] and gods have died.
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|I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died.
|Hoid to Siri on where he learned his particular method of storytelling{{book ref|wb|32}}
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|Hoid to Siri on where he learned his particular method of storytelling.{{book ref|wb|32}}
 
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=== The Way of Kings ===
 
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|The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first--but also exploit the first--while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.
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|The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first—but also exploit the first—while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.
|Hoid to [[Dalinar]]{{book ref|sa1|54}}
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| Hoid to Dalinar{{book ref|twok|54}}
 
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|Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldygrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them--yet wholly unlike them at the same time?<br/>
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|Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldygrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them&mdash;yet wholly unlike them at the same time?<br>
I wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a [[Dysian Aimian]]. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.
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I wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian [[Aimian]]. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.
|Hoid to Dalinar (after namedropping Adonalsium){{book ref|sa1|54}}
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|Hoid to Dalinar (after namedropping Adonalsium){{book ref|twok|54}}
 
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|I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice--or if you must, you may call me Hoid.
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|I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice&mdash;or if you must, you may call me Hoid.
|Hoid to Dalinar{{book ref|sa1|54}}
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|Hoid to Dalinar{{book ref|twok|54}}
 
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|Hoid|I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.
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|I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock."<br>
|Kaladin|A pretty one, I hope.
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"A pretty one, I hope."<br>
|Hoid|A beautiful one. And one that became completely worthless for my wearing it.
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"A beautiful one," the man said. "And one that became completely worthless for my wearing it.
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|Hoid to [[Kaladin]]{{book ref|twok|57}}
 
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|What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind."<br>
|Tanavast was a fine enough fellow--bought me drinks once--but he was '''not''' God.
 
 
"What does the story mean, then?"<br>
|Hoid to [[Jasnah]] on religion{{book ref|sa2|epilogue}}
 
 
"It means what you want it to mean. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.
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|Hoid to Kaladin on stories{{book ref|twok|57}}
 
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|Hoid|What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.
 
|Kaladin|What does the story mean, then?
 
|Hoid|It means what you want it to mean. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.
 
|attr={{book ref|sa1|57}}
 
 
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|People see in stories what they're looking for, my young friend. I have no answers for you. Most days, I feel I never have had any answers. I've come to your land to chase an old acquaintance, but I end up spending most of my time hiding from him instead.
 
|People see in stories what they're looking for, my young friend. I have no answers for you. Most days, I feel I never have had any answers. I've come to your land to chase an old acquaintance, but I end up spending most of my time hiding from him instead.
|Hoid to Kaladin{{book ref|sa1|57}}
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|Hoid to Kaladin{{book ref|twok|57}}
 
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|Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself
 
|Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself
|Hoid to the [[Kholinar]] city guards{{book ref|sa1|epilogue}}
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|Hoid to the [[Kholinar]] city guards{{book ref|twok|epilogue}}
 
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|What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.
 
|What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.
|Hoid to [[Taln]]{{book ref|sa1|epilogue}}
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|Hoid to [[Taln]]{{book ref|twok|epilogue}}
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|Keep cutting away at those thorns, strong one, and make a path for the light.
 
|Hoid to Shallan{{book ref|sa2|45}}
 
 
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=== Words of Radiance ===
 
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|You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen.
 
|You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen.
|Hoid (as Wit) to Dalinar{{book ref|sa2|67}}
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|Hoid (as Wit) to Dalinar{{book ref|wor|67}}
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|Hoid|Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.
 
|Shallan|Except you, of course.
 
|Hoid|Beware of '''anyone''' who claims to be able to see the future.
 
|attr={{book ref|sa3|68}}
 
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|I cannot judge the worth of a life. I would not dare to attempt it.
 
|Hoid (as Wit) to Shallan{{book ref|sa3|82}}
 
 
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=== Oathbringer ===
 
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|Accept the pain, but do not accept that you deserved it.
 
|Accept the pain, but do not accept that you deserved it.
|Hoid (as Wit) to Shallan{{book ref|sa3|82}}
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|Hoid (as Wit) to Shallan{{book ref|ob|82}}
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|How remarkable, [if] you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There’s poetry in that, don’t you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?
 
|Hoid to [[Ruthar]]{{book ref|sa4|50}}<!--(there are several other notable quotes in this chapter)-->
 
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|I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you Kaladin, '''you will be warm again.'''
 
|Hoid during Kaladin's vision from Odium{{book ref|sa4|80}}
 
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|Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don't make me come over there and slap you around again.
 
|Hoid to [[Kelsier]] (via Shallan){{book ref|sa4|115}}
 
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|Ah, those words.<br/>
 
I've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, "I don't trust you to make your
 
own decisions." The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt
 
on a corpse.<br/>
 
Oh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.
 
|Hoid on the phrase "for your own good"{{book ref|tress|56}}
 
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|I can remember…sitting on a rooftop. Looking up and wondering what the stars were.I assumed I’d never know. The town philosophers had talked themselves hoarse arguing the matter, as was often their way. Talk until you can’t talk anymore, and then hope someone will buy you a drink to keep the words flowing. <br/>
 
Yet here I am. Millennia later. Walking between the stars, learning each one.
 
|Hoid to Nomad{{book ref|sp4|10}}
 
 
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