Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

I suggested she write down her thoughts" He said, "...and, well, my daughter is a very thorough woman." "I can see that." Waxillium said. "I suggest that you never ask her to pass the milk" Wayne added under his breath, so only Waxillium could hear "She seems likely to throw a cow at you just to be certain the job is done thoroughly.

The storm catches everyone, eventually. Does it matter?

If stone met a man, stone might win--but if stone met humanity, then no force could preserve it.

OATHS, the Stormfather rumbled, ARE THE SOUL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

A warrior fights. She does not yield, and she does not abandon her people.

They all want to be involved, but nobody wants to be responsible

Lately, she'd been having trouble picturing him. She could perfectly remember a picture of him, hanging above the mansion's hearth. But him? That wasn't so easy, though she loved him. That is not so odd an occurrence. A picture is an object, easy to define and contain, while a person is a soul—and is therefore neither of those things.

YOU SHOULD KILL THEM. Vin looked up as she heard a pair of guards pass the door to her cell. There was one good thing about Ruin's voice—it tended to warn her when people were nearby, even if it did always tell her to kill them.

Some people—like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair—just needed to be removed.

Her personal studies proved that crime went down when people had a sense of identity with and ownership of their community.

But you'll always find people telling stories about supposedly better days. You watch. A man joins a new team of soldiers, and the first thing he'll do is talk about how wonderful his old team was. We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are." He

I don't want to anger your grandmother by getting you killed. She made me a pie last week.

You don't know what you're saying," Ua'pam said. "And that might just be why Maya and I are able to do things you think impossible.

Wasing not of wasing is," Quentin added.

Oh," Obliteration continued, "I think that you'll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.

I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

Elend smiled, preparing his next argument. He could keep this discussion going for quite sometime. For, if there was one thing in particular that he had learned by growing up in his father's house it was this: how to annoy people.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

But perhaps most important, the change was in not merely knowing that you weren't alone—but in feeling it. Realizing that no matter how isolated you thought you were, no matter how often your brain told you terrible things, there were others who understood. It wouldn't fix everything. But it was a start.

Goradel frowned at that. "I don't feel very expendable.

Like I said," MeLaan said. "He's set it up so that you have no choice—so far as you see it." "You see it differently?" "I've been a lot of people, Ladrian. Seen through a lot of eyes. There's always another perspective, if you look hard enough.

Several pieces of me are very interested in gardening," I said. "I just didn't bring them along.

If nothing changed, nothing would ever come to exist.

Is it gonna take my breath now," Mizzy asked, "or, like, sometime down the road? I'd like to be prepared.