Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Because they don't want to make choices anymore, he thought. Choices can be hard.

She stuck her tongue out at him. A totally rational and reasonable way to fight a demigod.

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal … well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Kelsier smiled. Gods, it appeared, could still fall for a classic misdirection con.

Whenever I'm thinkin' my life is miserable, I remember him, and tell myself, 'Well, Wayne. At least you ain't a broke, dickless feller what can't even pick his own nose properly.' And I feels better.

Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination. Speak again the ancient oaths and return to men the Shards they once bore.

You think a 'lord' in front of your name is going to make that face any less ugly?

But I still wondered: if we didn't matter as individuals, then what were we saving the group for?

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come...

Better to trust and be betrayed

To believe in a God was to accept that He or She wasn't going to deliver you from every problem.

I'm from southern Arelon, Princess," Ahan said, reaching for some more clams. "To us, round is beautiful. Not everyone wants their women to look like starving schoolboys.

I imagined those broken rocks as the broken bodies of my enemies, their bones shattered, their trembling arms reaching upward in a useless gesture of total and complete defeat. I was a very odd little girl.

Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

The God King's wrath, she thought drowsily, is decidedly less wrathful than reported.

Too much in high society is built around the idea of making certain you don't need to trust anyone," Waxillium said. "Contracts, detailed operating reports, not being seen alone with an eligible member of the opposite gender. If you remove the foundation of trust from a relationship, then what is the point of that relationship?

It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?

Do you know why I dislike men like you, Venture?" Yomen finally asked. "My insufferable charm and wit?" Elend asked. "I doubt it's my good looks - but, compared to that of an obligator, I suppose even my face could be enviable.

I find myself with an abundance of everything but time.

Standing out like a punk guitarist in a mariachi band.

Like slipping on a banana peel around a corner at eighty miles an hour. Piece of cake.

Vin closed her eyes, simply feeling the warmth of being held. And realized that was all she had ever really wanted.

All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline.