Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Oh, child. The world is monstrous at times, and there are those who would have you believe that you are terrible by association." "I am." "No. For you see, it flows the other direction. You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have

Because if I accept that Elend bears no guilt for what his people did to mine, then I must admit to being a monster for the things that I did to them.

He came at me," Adolin said, "in the training rooms, screaming that you'd found the killer. Said that if I didn't come, you'd probably—and I quote—'go do something stupid without letting me watch.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.

When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.

You make it sound like having the power to change the world is a bad thing." "Bad? No. Abhorrent, depressing, ghastly. Having power is a terrible burden, the worst thing imaginable, except for every other alternative.

Pilots are never 'peachy,' girl. We're spirited." "Or," I added, "briskly energized by the prospect of dealing death to the coming enemies." "Or that," Cobb said. "If you're psychotic.

My life," Melody declared, "is a tragedy.

His entire life had been a futile effort to stop a storm by yelling at it. The storm didn't care.

If someone insulted my biceps, I wouldn't attack him," Dalinar said. "I'd refer him to a physician, because obviously something is wrong with his eyes.

I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

The question," she replied, "is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.

If bravery is the wind that makes us soar like kites, fear is the string that keeps us from going too far.

Remember to smile.

Well, parents have to say things like that. They're required to see the best in their children, otherwise living with the little sociopaths would drive a person mad.

How could anyone understand the pain of a faith betrayed? He had believed. And yet, when he had needed hope the most, he had found only emptiness... Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue in it after failure. . . .

I don't struggle with feelings of insecurity any longer." "Good." "I'd say I'm pretty good at them.

Jasnah was never wrong." "This would be a storming bad time for her to break her record

My robotic ghost would haunt your fleshy one.

Brightness," the man said as she stepped up to him, "we aren't what you think we are." "No," Shallan replied. "You aren't what you think yourselves to be.

For a moment, it was just him. Him and the wind. He fought with her, and she laughed.

A pox of unique human diseases--many of which cause an uncomfortable swelling--come upon you!