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"But OreSeur, nobody betrayed us. Kelsier was right. It seems incredible to me even now, but the men in this crew - Ham, Dockson, Breeze - they're good people. And, even if one of them were to betray me, I'd still rather have trusted them. I can sleep at night, OreSeur. I can feel peace, I can laugh. Life is different. Better."

They say that nobody can define you but you.

John Cage created a series of etchings late in life. In them, he placed shapes on an etching plate based on random throws of the I Ching. He was asked if he ever changed the resulting composition based on his own preferences. He responded, 'When I find myself at that point, in the position of someone who would change something — at that point I don't change it, I change myself. It's for that reason that I have said that instead of self-expression, I'm involved in self-alteration.' Allowing a creation to alter us, without filtering it based on our likes or dislikes, can be very freeing and informative, just as you may have found in appreciating other things as they are. We can then receive messages beyond our habitual ways of seeing and thinking.

"'In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it,' Ead continued. 'It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed - but never think that you are the night.'"

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"We became your tools. As long as we remain subservient, Mistress, we survive. And that is why I obey. To break the Contract would be to betray my people. We cannot fight you, but while you have Mistborn, and so we must serve you."