Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

You can hear my thoughts?" Wax asked. When you have the earring in, yes. I gain the ability to hear you from Preservation, and the ability to speak to you from Ruin. Each had only one half. I always found it puzzling.

Legends say that one of your ancestors —one of only two others to have this Talent—broke time and space together, forming a little bubble where nothing aged.

fight for no king and for all of them.

It was nice to make headway; yet in her experience, a fair breeze one day was the herald of a tempest to come.

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We

There is always another secret.

What," Pattern said with a hum, "is a chaperone?" "That is someone who watches two young people when they are together, to make certain they don't do anything inappropriate." "Inappropriate?" Pattern said. "Such as … dividing by zero?" "What?" Shallan asked, looking to Adolin, who shrugged. "Look, just keep an eye on us. It will be all right.

A voice like boots stepping in gravel.

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

And rushlessness was the very most practical of emotions.

I wouldn't have thought the king would discuss important matters where the dull-minded can hear. Such people tend to be so confused by events that it is a disservice to allow them the opportunity.

No obliguéis a la gente a hacer honor a vuestros sueños sobre quiénes podrían ser.

Shallan had not expected Jasnah Kholin to be so beautiful

If Taravangian killed a child, he'd do it not for vengeance. Not for fury. Not for wealth or renown. But because he sincerely thought the child's death was necessary. He would call it good, then? No. He would acknowledge it as evil, would say it stains his soul. He says... that's the point of having a monarch. A man to wallow in blood, to be stained by it and destroyed by it, so that others might not suffer.

Of course, Wax thought, starting to climb, what am I but a pile of blood and meat that gets up and walks around?

I wanted to move. I needed to move. But in those moments, I could more easily have lifted a semi truck filled with pudding.

Recordamos los buenos tiempos y los malos tiempos, olvidando que la mayor parte de las veces ni son buenos ni son malos. Solo son.

Siempre fui un sueño. Un sueño maravilloso. Quizá el primero jamás concedido por una pesadilla...

Idle words. From foolish people.

All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise

La experiencia en sí es la gran maestra, y a ella debéis recurrir sin intermediarios.

The value in something relates to how it is treated

You're not just evil, you're a selfish, crem-crusted eel who is trying to strangle this kingdom with his bulbous, bastard hand.

Technically," M-Bot said, hovering a few centimeters closer to him, "the word 'sentient' just means an ability to perceive and/or feel. Many people misuse this word. Instead, 'sapience' is the word for self-awareness—or intelligence like a human being. Which if you think about it is a human-centric definition. Those rascally humans and their linguistic biases.