Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died. But that is unimportant.

That night, it rained on the other dogs, who slept outside in the cold barn, which leaked. But the little dog snuggled into a warm bed beside the fire, hugged by the farmer's children, his belly full. And as he did, the dog sadly thought to himself, 'I could not become a dragon. I am an utter and complete failure.' The end.

You're not enjoying yourself," Syl said. "You're starting to sound a lot like my mother." "Captivating?" Syl said. "Amazing, witty, meaningful?" "Repetitive." "Captivating?" Syl said. "Amazing, witty, meaningful?" "Very funny." "Says the man not laughing," she replied, folding her arms.

I will take responsibility for what I have done," whispered Dalinar. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

You had to adapt. Move. Change. That was good, but it could also threaten identity, connection, and sense of purpose.

Giving her ten thousand Lifeless is enough to make even me consider my drunk-monkey theory." "The one who chooses names and titles of the Returned?" "Exactly," Lightsong said. "I've actually considered expanding the theory. I am now proposing to believe that God-or the universe, or time, or whatever you think controls all of this-is all really just a drunk monkey.

Because people were people, and if there was one thing you could count on, it was that some of them would be weird. Or rather that all of them would be weird when circumstances happened to align with their own individual brand of insanity. That

But since then you've acted like I was a gorilla at your buffet." "A...what?" "Gorilla at your buffet. You know... eating all your food? Making you annoyed? That kind of thing?

At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

People think I know a lot about women. The truth is, I know how to get them, how to make them laugh, how to make them interested. I don't know how to keep them." He hesitated. "I really want to keep this one.

Breeze chuckled. "I don't know if you noticed the earthquake a few minutes ago, my dear man, but the world appears to be ending. That is an indisputably depressing event.

But why do you care? What does it matter?" "You're my only Bridgeboy," Adolin said with a grin. "Where would I get another?

I sense a very large but. " "Funny, because right in front of me, I see a—" "Watch it.

I'm Teoish," Sarene said, successfully spearing something that looked like a marinated piece of shrimp. "We're all this tall." "Father's Teoish too, Kaise," Daorn said. "And you know how tall he is." "But father's fat," Kaise pointed out. "Why aren't you fat too, Sarene?

You do not agree with my quest. I understand that, so much as it is possible to understand someone with whom I disagree so completely.

That was the strangest thing that had happened to me since starting flight school, and I spent my mornings talking to a slug.

So yes, I, Adolin Kholin--cousin to the king, heir to the Kholin princedom--have shat myself in my Shardplate. Three times, all on purpose.

You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.

We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.

I ain't grouchy," Teft snapped. "I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change.

Huh" Wayne said thoughtfully "Tea's poisoned." With that, he toppled to the ground.

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

It's all just in our heads." "Who cares if it's all in our heads?" Finally she looked at me, frowning. "Who cares?" I said. "Yes, it's all in my head. But pain is 'all in my head' too. Love is 'all in my head.' All the things that matter in life are the things you can't measure! The things our brains make up! Being made-up doesn't make them unimportant.