Quotes About Risk

When jumping is the sole option, you jump.

But so far, we've never been in a city long before we're running for our lives.

Agad needed her help. Her grandparents would not agree to this unless the situation were dire. Kendra had risked her life at Zzyzx to save the world. If she was needed again, and nobody else could do it, what else could she say?

Seth, I'm about to lose it. Enough about going after the artifact. It's crazy. Can't you tell when an idea is doomed? Are you programmed to self-destruct?

When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.

Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don't know.

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff. Waxilliam: And? Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation. Waxilliam: Comfortable? Wayne: No. Boring.

Great , Elend thought. I've filled my inner council with a bunch of thrill-seeking masochists. Even worse, I've decided to join them.

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Yes, yes. Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don't know.

Never let your life depend on the competence of someone whose life isn't also on the line.

That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don't put you in mortal peril every once in a while?

I risked and I lost but the risk was still worth it.

That isn't greatness. That's just foolishness.

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in. And eaten their dinners.

She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.

If bravery is the wind that makes us soar like kites, fear is the string that keeps us from going too far.

Scared to go onward, but terrified to go back to what you were

A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.

Like slipping on a banana peel around a corner at eighty miles an hour. Piece of cake.

it's better to be embarrassed than dead.