Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

When this is done, Jerkface, I will hold your tarnished and melted pin up as my trophy as your smoldering ship marks your pyre, and the final resting place of your crushed and broken corpse!" - Spensa, pg. 64

Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?

I wasn't complaining', Pattern complained.

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Not that there's anything wrong with humans. I find their frail, emotionally unstable, irrational natures quite endearing.

I didn't say Tvlakv isn't a bastard. He's just a likable bastard." He hesitated, then grimaced. "Those are the worst kind. When you kill them, you end up feeling guilty for it.

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in. And eaten their dinners.

The world ends tomorrow, but the day after that, people are going to ask what's for breakfast.

City folk, particularly politicians, were intimidated by small arms. They preferred to kill people with more modern weapons, like poverty and despair.

That's it. It's all going to end. The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle.

You don't fly, you fall the wrong way.

You know," he said, "it amazes me sometimes that we even try. With everything they've done to us—the deaths, the tortures, the agonies—you'd think that we would just give up on things like hope and love. But we don't.

That soup tasted better than the blood of my enemies. Considering I'd never actually tasted the blood of my enemies, perhaps that didn't do justice to the soup.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

The trick is to never stop looking. There's always another secret.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

Spectacles. They were kind of like a hat for smart people.

A warrior is nothing if she has nothing to fight for.

You're young," Teft said. "I'm old." "That makes you wiser, presumably?" "Damnation no. The only thing it proves is that I've more experience staying alive than you.

Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man's a prince. We can't storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it.

Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

If I pretend … If I pretend I didn't do those things, it means that I can't have grown to become someone else.

I know how you feel. Dark, like there's never been light in the world. Like everything in you is a void, and you wish you could just feel something. Anything. Pain would at least tell you you're alive. Instead you feel nothing. And you wonder, how can a man breathe, but already be dead?