Brandon Sanderson Quotes

You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

You don't really get to choose. We worship you, and that makes you our God.

Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist.

Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.

The Gottschalk was a fine weapon."You, " I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."Great. Now I was talking to guns.

My life to yours. My breath beecome yours.

My life to yours. My breath become yours.

The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.

Nice work, " he said.I grinned."You look like hell, though, " he noted."I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid, " I replied.

We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.

Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that, ” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.

You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.

A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

Progress is learning to control your world.

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

I’m sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.

Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p

What you did tonight was clever, ” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

It’s what happens when you shoot someone, ” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

Good men don't become legends, " he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.

Not having ice cream, ” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it’s pointed at someone else.

To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.

This is insanity!""No, this is scholarship!

So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?

I ain't grouchy, ” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

we're all freaks sometimes, Melody, " he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most.

He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.

Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours, " Lifesong said. "My breath become yours.

How quickly we come around, ' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.

Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.

In the end, after kingdoms and armies had fallen, the religions were still fighting, weren't they?

I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It tasted like soil boiled in mud, wit a topping of dirt.

I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee.

I could take a shower every day in my own bathroom. I almost didn’t know what to do with such luxury. Other than, you know, not stink.

Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.

Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so your

Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.

Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing.