Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

All people must accept that we have the potential to do terrible things. It is part of seeing our place in the universe, our heritage, and our natures. But in that acceptance we gain strength, for potential can be refused. Any hero who could have been a monster is more heroic for the choices he or she made to walk another road.

I learned how much power over a situation you gain when you decide that you don't care what others think of you.

The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.

Aladar's axehounds had puppies. I had no idea how much I needed to see puppies until I flew by them this morning. They are the grossest things on the planet, Kaladin. They're somehow so gross that they're cute. So cute I could have died! Except I can't, because I'm an eternal sliver of God himself, and we have standards about things like that.

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

What do you trust when your own thoughts and emotions seem to hate you?

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit, however, can suffocate.

As picky as a woman with her shoes," Abraham grumbled. "Hey," I said. "That's insulting." I knew plenty of women who were pickier with their guns than they were with their shoes.

You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color inside of them. They just go about their duties, eyes down, solemn. You've got color on the inside, so much of it that it bursts out and colors everything around you.

To be of use in even a single burst of flame and sound is worth more than a lifetime of achieving nothing.

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

You can't be in Bridge Four. We're bodyguards for your own family. What are you going to do? Guard yourself?

Doesn't matter how good your bullets are if you don't aim carefully.

But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.

If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.

A hero does not choose her trials

Hello! Would you like to destroy some evil today?

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.

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

Navani!" Dalinar shouted, pulling his horse to a slippery stop across the tarp from her. "I need a miracle!" "Working on it," she shouted back.

If there was a universal law regarding mankind, it was that they'd find a way to ferment anything, given time.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.

I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.