Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

I doubt any dragon ever had it so good anyway.

Honor is not dead so long as he lives in the hearts of men!

If we cannot defeat the assassin, then we must remove his reason for attacking. If we can capture or eliminate his employers, then perhaps we can invalidate whatever contract binds him. Last we knew, he was employed by the Parshendi." "Great," Ruthar said dryly. "All we have to do is win the war, which we've only been trying to do for five years.

He nodded." "He kind-of-halfway-sort-of-nodded-but-it-might-have-been-a-random-twitch.

When this is finished, I think I should like to live where it is warm all year.

And we started flying. Sloooooowly. "Yippee?" M-Bot said. "It is kind of a letdown, isn't it?

The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?

Oh, they had leaders, Master Kelsier," Sazed said. "Dead ones, true, but leaders nonetheless." "Some men would say that their devotion didn't make sense," Kelsier said. "The loss of the Vallan leaders should have broken the people, not made them more determined to keep going." Sazed shook his head. "Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Don't you see, boy? This is why you shouldn't be king. Leave the job to men who understand their own corruption; don't let it destroy you.

Truth can never be defeated, Sarene. Even if people do forget about it occasionally.

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book." Blushweaver

When has any man ever been content with what he has? When has any tyrant said to himself, 'This is enough'?

Cómo te has hecho tan popular? —Maté a su dios

Why did it seem that the more he demonstrated himself to be an idiot, the more convinced people became that he had some kind of hidden depths?

Librarians seemed to have a sixth sense for noticing when students were doing things they weren't supposed to.

Beards were like axehound pups. Boys dreamed of the day they'd get one, never realizing how annoying they could be.

Oh, my lord, I know it, I do." The beggar laughed. "I own the place, technically. Now, regarding those coins for old Hoid, my good lord…

Life was a tempest, whether you were a milkmaid or a queen. The queens were simply better at projecting control in the middle of that storm.

We lift the bridge together, Teft," Kaladin said. "And we carry it.

Are you kidding? You just told her that an invisible man who tells you to kill people just showed up when you didn't want him to." "Not one of our smoothest interactions," Tobias agreed.

When you read a book, it's like you're becoming an actor, taking on the roles of a dozen different people, coming to know and love them like you know yourself. It's one of the best ways to experience another life, to become something that you are not.

You can beat anybody, Wayne always said, so long as you don't let them fight back properly.

Art is not art if it has a function.

having knowledge was entirely different from explaining that knowledge to others.