Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Adolin nodded curtly. He was still angry, Dalinar could see, but he chose to follow Dalinar—and part of following a leader was supporting him even when the battle turned against him.

Did you know that even then, with computers and libraries and all kinds of reminders, we found it easy to forget where we came from? Maybe because we had machines to do the remembering for us, we felt we could simply leave it to them.

And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died. - from Charal Drianaan te Calamon, The Cycle of the Dragon

You're nice and stuff," Hurl said. "I figure you'll give in if I push hard enough. So, can I eat your dessert?" "Bless your stars," Kimmalyn said. "But touch my pie, and I'll rip your fingers off.

New tastes are like new ideas, young man - the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

You remind me of someone I've forgotten.

And cleanliness is next to deadliness

I wanted a frozen burrito. Sara died for that.

Wasing not of wasing is", Quentin added.

But merely being tradition does not make something worthy.

Do not be so hard on the child. She is a product of her upbringing, just as you are. If you judge her worth based on frivolities, then you are doing the same as those who judge you based on your simple clothing.

I felt hollowed out. Empty. Not afraid, of course. I bathed in fires of destruction and reveled in the screams of the defeated. I didn't get afraid. But maybe, deep down, I was…worried.

Well, best to remain vigilant. It's when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.

Some things just work . There is elegance in simplicity.

I couldn't help grinning at the sight of her. Megan, in turn, raised a nine-millimeter square at my chest. Well, that was familiar, at least.

That's what war is," Cobb told me. "A bunch of sorry, desperate fools on both sides, just trying to stay alive. That's the part that those stories you love leave out, isn't it? It's always more convenient when you can fight a dragon. Something you don't have to worry you'll start caring about.

Can't you just relax," she asked him, "just for a little while?" "The rules—" "Everyone else—" "I cannot be everyone else!" Dalinar said, more sharply than he intended. "If I ignore our code and ethics, what am I, Navani? The other highprinces and lighteyes deserve recrimination for what they do, and I have let them know it. If I abandon my principles, then I become something far worse than they. A hypocrite!

The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.

Never let something trivial, like a sense of humor, get in the way of a good joke.

Without the glowing fruit, the place was as black as the inside of a can of black paint that had also been painted black.

This is the thing I fight. This is the monster I must defeat. I fear that I have taken too long. Already, so much destruction has occurred that I fear for mankind's survival. Is this truly the end of the world, as many of the philosophers predict?

You are worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

William Ann had actually had a childhood. She wasn't weak, she was just . . . normal. A woman could be strong without having the emotions of a brick.

Coincidence", he finally said. "Statisticans looking for connections can always find odd coincidences and statistical anomalies, if they try hard enough.