Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Funny, how quickly someone can stop calling you a miscreant and a rogue when they want your help

It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.

That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.

It is not perfection we seek, for perfection is impossible. It is instead consistency.

Go into the building, search out the Returned who lives in it, and run around in circles squeaking as loudly as you can. Don't let anybody catch you. Oh, and destroy as much furniture as you can.

I'm a collection of stories stuffed into a brain with no context, trying so very hard to simply keep going.

Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence.

Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon sanderson(Elantris)

Wayne claimed to have memorized the names of all of the different possible combinations of Twinborn. Of course, Wayne also claimed to have once stolen a horse that belched in perfect musical notes, so one learned to take what he said with a pinch of copper.

Prince Adolin," he said flatly, "is engaged to a Horneater?

The surest way to stay alive in the underworld was to make yourself indispensable.

That's exactly the problem. Everyone's convinced that their lives are over just because their hearts stopped beating." "That's usually a pretty good indication, sule," Galladon said dryly.

A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.

Yes, I keep the flower," Kelsier said. "I'm not really sure why. But…do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much—pain, frustration, anger…and I still loved her. I still do.

Leniency and mercy. Men set free despite crimes, because they were good fathers, or well liked in the community, or in the favor of someone important. "Some of those who are set free change their lives and go on to produce for society. Others recidivate and create great tragedies. The thing is, Szeth son Neturo, we humans are terrible at spotting which will be which. The purpose of the law is so we do not have to choose. So our native sentimentality will not harm us.

I can't ever come up with any logical reason why she would want to be with me. I just...have to trust her judgment.

A leader is often judged by how well he bears responsibility. As king, everything that happens in your kingdom - regardless of who commits the act -is your fault.

Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The wood bounced off the man's helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.

Besides, you scowl at everyone like an old man anyway. You'll be a great fit." Kaladin glowered at her. "Perfect! Keep it up!

Only a fool thinks that weapons are more important than strategy and motion.

I'm like that," she said. "Wild mood swings. It makes me more interesting.

She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

We don't want you along," Vin said. "We don't trust you - and we don't like you.

You should have been the surgeon Adolin," Kaladin said. "Not me. You care about people." "Don't be silly," Adolin said, pulling open the door as he gestured at Kaladin's work clothing. "I could never dress like that." He left Kaladin with a wink.