“There you go again.” “What?” “Feeling guilty. Dalinar, you are a wonderful, honorable man—but you really are… — Brandon Sanderson
“There you go again.”
“What?”
“Feeling guilty. Dalinar, you are a wonderful, honorable man—but you really are quite prone to self-indulgence.”
Guilt? As self-indulgence? “I never considered it that way before.”
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