Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

bridges to be burned once I captured them.

She'd felt … comfortable with Elend. Looking back on the experience, she realized that for those few moments, she hadn't really been Lady Valette. Nor had she been Vin, for that part of her—the timid crewmember—was almost as fake as Valette was. No, she'd simply been … whoever she was.

Las emociones de un hombre son lo que lo definen, y el control es la marca de la verdadera fuerza. Carecer de sentimiento es estar muerto, pero actuar al dictado de cada sentimiento es ser un niño.

Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.

For while life was painful, life was also sweet.

Doesn't that bother you?" Kaladin asked. "That you might be a creation of human perception?" "You're a creation of your parents. Who cares how we were born? I can think. That's good enough.

The things that others have always seem better than what you have

Laws are of men, Kaladin. Nature doesn't have them!

But must not even a madman rely on his own mind, his own experience, rather than that of others?

Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves.

I go to the gods," Rock said. He held up his finger. "There is one who lives here. One afah'liki. He is powerful god, but tricky. You should not have lost his flute." "I … don't think Wit is a god, Rock.

I hadn't realized that this whole "water" thing was going to be an issue for me. I mean Ã¢â'¬Â¦ half the world is water, right? And we're all half water to boot. So stepping into the sub should have felt like a sheep falling into a big pile of cotton. Only it didn't. It felt like a sheep falling into a pile of nails. Wet nails. On the bottom of the ocean.

Wouldn't tennis be way more interesting with explosive balls?

As I lack the experience to decide the worth of a life, I sincerely doubt that she has somehow obtained it. You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.

He didn't recruit me," Cett pointed out. "I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco." "I wish I cared enough to apologize," Elend said, staring at them.

Your words make sense up here," Kaladin said, tapping his head. "But not down here." He slapped his breast. "That's always been your problem, son. Letting your heart override your head." "My head can't be trusted sometimes," Kaladin said.

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them. And

I decided that I'd see her dream fulfilled. I'd make a world where flowers returned, a world with green plants, a world where no soot fell from the sky….

My little Jasnah, insufferable and wonderful.

Metal. In some ways, that was the true mark of mankind. Man tamed the stones, the bones of the earth below. Man tamed the fire, that ephemeral, consuming soul of life. And combining the two, he drew forth the marrow of the rocks themselves, then made molten tools.

Cody had said it was magic, and had told me not to ask any questions lest I "anger the wee daemons inside who make the gloves work and our coffee taste good

You have a plan?" she asked. "There isn't much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.

Instead, he gripped her forearm. "Why, Jasnah? Why have you always denied me?" "Other than the fact that you are a detestable buffoon who achieves only the lowest level of mediocrity, as it is the best your limited mind can imagine? I can't possibly think of a reason.

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.