Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Didgeridooing?" Megan asked from over my shoulder. "Profanity filter on my mobile," I said. "You use a profanity filter? What is this, kindergarten?" "Nah," I said. "It's hilarious. Makes people sound really stupid.

The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.

The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all, he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They weren't all true. But they all had truth.

That's where we belong, not in those caverns. The kids who make fun of you, they're trapped on this rock. Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

I thought I'd gotten over feeling like I need to strangle members of this team. Turns out my desire to murder Cody in a violent, dehumanizing fashion had nothing to do with the darkness. It was completely natural.

How easy it was to ignore a blackened heart if you dressed it in a pressed uniform and a reputation for honesty.

Parents are unpredictable when their children are involved," Harding said. "I'd much rather fight a squadron of Forgotten than deal with an affluent mother who thinks her son is in danger.

There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.

Names didn't mean a whole lot in the Forests. Or maybe they meant everything. The right ones, that was.

Still, a fling couldn't hurt, right?" Veil said. She nodded her chin toward one of the passing barmaids, a tall young woman with unusually light hair. "What about Hem over there? She's tall." "Great. Tall," Kaladin said. "Because we both measure roughly the same in inches, we're sure to get along. Think of all the tall-person topics of conversation we could engage in. Like Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Hmm…

If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you.

Wit dropped his bloody handkerchief before Ruthar. "How remarkable," he said. "If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?

He'd once believed he had been four men in his life, but he now saw he'd grossly underestimated. He hadn't lived as two, or four, or six men—he had lived as thousands, for each day he became someone slightly different. He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

However," he continued, "duty should not be accepted without question. Duty can be a motive, but should not be an excuse.

Cuz in my experience, marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

People are people. Whatever happens, they make communities, struggle for normalcy. Even

There was always an excuse for why Kaladin needed the spear again, wasn't there? This was what he'd been afraid of. This was what made him tremble. The worry that he would never be able to put it down.

This is life, and I will not lie to you saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that's a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: you will be warm again.

Oh, hell," Kelsier said. "There's actually a God?" "Yes." Kelsier decked him.

You keep walking through the middle of J.C.," I said. "It's very disturbing for him; he hates being reminded he's a hallucination." "I'm not a hallucination," J.C. snapped. "I have state-of-the-art stealthing equipment.

But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

How easily Elend spoke of hope and humor, as if being happy were simply a decision one made. Some people assumed that it was. Once, Sazed might have agreed with them. Now, his stomach simply twisted, and he felt sick at the thought of taking pretty much any action. His thoughts were constantly invaded by doubts.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.