Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

I accept that there will be those I cannot protect.

The past is boring anyway. We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.

Maybe it doesn't matter what he thinks. It's hard to feel that, but I can say it. That feels like a different kind of lying. One that's not all untrue.

I'm not odd! I'm beautiful and articulate

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder and led her into the dining room, where the rest of the family sat around the table, even Adien. Lukel had been talking animatedly, but he cut off as he saw Sarene. "Speak the name of the lion," he said, quoting a Jindoeese proverb, "and he will come to feast.

I could not become a dragon. I am an utter and complete failure.

Worry has weight, and is an infinitely renewable resource.

Fame is like a cheeseburger. It might not be the best or most healthy thing to have, but it will still fill you up. You don't really care how healthy something is when you've been without it for so long. Like a cheeseburger, fame fills a need, and it tastes so good going down. It isn't until years later that you realize what it has done to your heart.

They looked so dangerous, like alligators. Really fast alligators wearing black. Ninja alligators.

One man lying about is being idle; two men lying about is a lunch break.

Watch out for púcas as you travel, lad," Cody said, shaking my hand. "Could be imitating anything out there." "Once again," Tia said as she settled into the seat in front of me, "those are from Irish mythology, you nitwit.

Daha fazla arzulaman gerektiÄŸini düÅŸündüÄŸün ÅŸey için en çok istediÄŸinden vazgeçersen sonun kötü olur.

You get to choose who you are.

I'd gone on such a rampage that I would have made the proverbial bull in the proverbial china shop look unproverbially good by proverbial comparison. (Personally, I don't even know how he'd fit through the door. Proverbially.)

You will be surprised how much more profitable an independent man is than a slave who thinks of nothing more than his next meal.

History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm.

Sometimes doing things we used to do reminds us of who we used to be, and not always in good ways.

This was life. This was control. Gavilar had been the leader, the momentum, and the essence of their conquest. But Dalinar had been the warrior. Their opponents had surrendered to Gavilar's rule, but the Blackthorn—he was the man who had scattered them, the one who had dueled their leaders and slain their best Shardbearers.

Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately

How did a man like you ever end up at a table of negotiation?" "I was trained by a surly Mistborn, a sarcastic Terrisman, and a group of disrespectful thieves," Elend said, sighing. "Plus, on top of that, I was a fairly insufferable person to begin with.

If I didn't care so much, then being betrayed wouldn't feel so painful.

Do not dismiss your own talents because you envy those of another.

You're the greatest at relationships there ever was. You ruined only the wrong ones, you see.