Brandon Sanderson

- Well, that’s because they’re wrong and I’m right. No more reading for you. Let’s go get some ice cream.
- I don’t know if the kitchen has any, Joel said. It’s hard to get in the summers, and—
- Not from the kitchen, stupid, Melody said, rolling her eyes. From the parlor out on Knight Street.
- Oh. I’ve … never been there.
- What! That’s a tragedy
- “Melody, everything is a tragedy to you.
- Not having ice cream, she proclaimed, is the culmination of all disasters! That’s it. No more discussion. We’re going. Follow.