Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you'd be accustomed to it by now." He grunted. "Be careful, girl. You wouldn't want to accidentally insult a man." "The last thing I'd want to do is accidentally insult you, Vathah," Shallan said. "To think that I couldn't manage it on purpose if I wanted!

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.

We actually killed the thing." "Sad, I know," she said, feeling depressed. "It was beautiful." "It would be more beautiful if it hadn't tried to eat me." "From my perspective," Shallan noted, "it didn't try, it succeeded." "Nonsense," Kaladin said. "It didn't manage to swallow me. Doesn't count.

So," Marasi said, "you traded a dead man's scarf for another dead man's gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—" "Don't try," Waxillium said. "Logic doesn't work on Wayne." "I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller," Wayne explained. "It lets me add two 'n' two and get a pickle.

Books have great value, actions have greater value.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

They are presented attractively for the same reason that kittens are cute - so that they can draw you in, then pounce on you for the kill. Seriously. Stay away from kittens.

So . . . ," I said. "You're saying that by the end of our training, you expect us to be able to use grappling hooks made of energy to smash our enemies with flaming chunks of space debris ?" "Yes." "That . . . ," I whispered, "that's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.

How do you do that?" Mennis asked, frowning. "What?" "Smile so much." "Oh, I'm just a happy person.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

Life was about momentum . Pick a direction and don't let anything—man or storm— turn you aside.

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

Some people charged toward the goal, running for all they had. Others stumbled. But it wasn't the speed that mattered. It was the direction they were going.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination. I will protect those who cannot protect themselves. I will protect even those I hate so long as it is right.