Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

I will protect even those I hate,' Kaladin whispered through bloody lips, 'So long as it is right

Spook, child. You want to be like me? Really like me? Then fight when you are beaten!

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, sat atop the highest tower in the world and contemplated the End of All Things.

She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.

Wasing the where of what

You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

What if they take you captive?" Goradel asked. "My dear man," Breeze said, leaning forward to look out at Goradel. "That's why kings send ambassadors. This way, if someone gets captured, the king is still safe. We, my friend, are something Elend can never be: expendable." Goradel frowned at that. " I don't feel very expendable.

Is that the constables?" Aunt Gin asked, sounding horrified. "Afraid so," Wax said, pulling the door closed. The carriage lurched into motion, and Steris leaned out the window, waving farewell to the poor innkeeper. "Framed for murder!" Steris called to her. "It's on page seventeen of the list I gave you! Try not to let them harass our servants too much when they arrive!

Then [Hurl] sat up, holding out her fist. "Not cowards. No backing down. Brave until the end, right Spin? A pact." I met her fist with mine. "Brave to the end.

An easy life taught one very little.

You ask why I smile, Goodman Mennis? Well, the Lord Ruler thinks he has claimed laughter and joy for himself. I'm disinclined to let him do so. This is one battle that doesn't take very much effort to fight.

Don't use his name as an oath, Vin,' Kelsier said. 'Even blasphemy honors him - when you curse by that creature's name, you acknowledge him as your god.

Visit?" Yeden asked uncomfortably. "You're going to visit the Lord Ruler? Are you insa..." Yeden trailed off, then glanced at the rest of the room. "Right. I forgot.

The best indication of what human beings will do is not what they think, but what the record says similar groups have done in the past.

Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He'd felt it on the first day he'd picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks's advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He'd never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive.

If you remove the foundation of trust from a relationship, then what is the point of that relationship?

And yet, when you fly, you are amazing. You're so determined, so skillful, so passionate. You're a fire, Spin. When everyone else is calm, you're a burning bonfire. Beautiful, like a newly forged blade.

For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.

It strikes me that religion—in its essence—seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.

I am an artist," Wit said. "I should thank you not to demean me by insisting my art must be trying to accomplish something. In fact, you shouldn't enjoy art. You should simply admit that it exists, then move on. Anything else is patronizing.

I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet. "You're like a potato!" I shouted after her. "In a minefield.

You should know by now that I've already had greatness. I traded it for mediocrity and some measure of sanity.

In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.

It was simply the way of human beings, subtly changing the past in their minds to match their current beliefs.