He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken. <br /><br />Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled <i>anyway</i>. <br /><br />It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.

Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson