Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

One of the great tragedies of life is knowing how many people in the world are made to soar, paint, sing, or steer—except they never get the chance to find out.

Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.

Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life.

You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you. It would certainly make things easier if you did.

I don't suppose you'd want to go destroy some evil, would you? the voice said. I'm not really sure what that means, to be honest. I'll just trust you to decide.

Vin shook her head. "No, not me. I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things." OreSeur watched her for a moment, then settled back down. "Regardless," he said, "you are not my worst master. That is, perhaps, a compliment among our people.

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Do you know how many grand romances would have avoided tragedy if the hero had thought, "You know, maybe I should ask her if she likes me first"?

But it's not a matter of morality, is it? It's a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you'd accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job. And so … I must hang all four men." He paused. "And I would weep, every night, for having done it.

I think the trick is convincing yourself that you deserve the reactions you get. You can wear the court's dresses, Vin, but make them your own. Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

In the land where everyone screams, everyone is also slightly deaf.

Of course I am," Wax said. "This is my second marriage. I'm an old hand at the practice by now." Wayne grinned. "Oh, is that how it works? 'Cuz in my experience, marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

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

It's going to be painful." "It's a fun tradition." "So was witch-burning," Melody said. "Unless you were the witch.

Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

The door slammed open. Vivenna jumped, putting a hand to her chest. Vasher walked in. 'Start reaching for that sword when you're startled,' he said. 'There's little reason to grab your shirt, unless you're planning to rip it off.

You have quite the clever tongue on you!" "I've never actually had someone's tongue on me," Shallan said, turning a page and not looking up, "clever or not. I'd hazard to consider it an unpleasant experience." "It ain't so bad," Gaz said.

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

The body needs many different foods to remain healthy. And the mind needs many different ideas to remain sharp.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.

Zane didn't make sense. He didn't have to. That was, perhaps, one of the advantages of being insane.

Turned out that the end of the world had to actually arrive before people would take it seriously.

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.