Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Cowardice can imitate heroism if given no where to flee

Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

When men fought, they connected. You became brothers as you traded blows.

Ham rubbed his chin. "I don't know, Breeze. It's an interesting question. By influencing her emotions, did you take away her ability to choose? If, for instance, she were to kill or steal while under your control, would the crime be hers or yours?

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.

If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

I probably shouldn't mock our family. House Davar is distinctive and enduring." Jushu raised his cup. Wikim nodded sharply. "Of course," she added, "the same could be said for a wart.

Priests are always easy to blame. They make convenient scapegoats—after all, anyone with a strong faith different from your own must either be a crazy zealot or a lying manipulator.

Those people gave in to their pain because they couldn't find purpose—their torture was meaningless, and when you can't find reason in life, you tend to give up on it.

Pre-Calamity people had been weird. Awesome too--evidence: castle---but still pretty weird.

But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

What was that?" Galladon demanded. "I think I just destroyed the biology section" Raoden replied with wonder.

He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.

There had been something more they could do to him. One final torment the world had reserved just for Kaladin. And it was called Bridge Four.

Megan's eyes could have drilled holes through butter

Oh, and one thing. Please, please don't depend on me too much. I mean that. I'm not going to be of much help. If your plots come to a head—if things go wrong at the last moment and you're in danger or distress—don't think of me. I will fail you. That I promise from my heart with absolute sincerity." - Lightsong

Mate, it ain't violence if it's religion.

I tried to bring them back, but apparently fixing the bodies doesn't return the souls.

I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?

Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.

It's ironic, in a way. I've spent a lifetime controlling the emotions of others. Now I'm so afraid, I can't even function.

You talk about hunger and pain as if they are forces which can't be resisted. Anything is acceptable, as long as the hunger made you do it-remove our comforts, and we become animals.