Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Clothing doesn't really change a man," Elend said. "But it changes how others react to him. Tindwyl's words. I think… I think the trick is convincing yourself that you deserve the reactions you get. You can wear the court's dresses, Vin, but make them your own. Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

I was pretty sure she was just mimicking me. And to be honest, I didn't know if "she" was a she—weren't slugs, like, both or something?

That's your name, isn't it? You aren't the man who wrote the logbook. You're not the hero that was sent to protect the people … you're his servant. The packman who hated him." She

Estoy roto. —¿Y quién no? La vida nos rompe, Teft. Y entonces rellenamos las grietas con algo más fuerte.

A knife can only be sharpened so far before all you are doing is wearing it away.

When the situation seems hopeless you need Lift: "Relax, grandpa. Steal the rock. I can do that.

Do you like the new dress", Syl asked, wagging her covered safehand while standing in the air. "Looks strange on you.""I'll have you know, I put a *ton* of thought into it. I spent positively *hours* thinking of just how - Oh! What's that?

warrior is nothing if she has nothing to fight for.

No person was one single emotion; no person had only one desire. They had many, and usually those desires conflicted with one another like two rosebushes fighting for the same patch of ground.

He avoided stepping on the plants—though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.

I bet the first time you had emotions, you babbled a lot and soiled your clothing.

Brother. 'You must find the most important words a man can say

Cobb,' I said, stepping closer. 'Those aren't bloodthirsty monsters out there; they're just people. Normal people, with lives, and loves, and families.' 'And what did you *think* we've been fighting against all these years?' Cobb asked.

Stories and legends, Teft," Kaladin said. "We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don't change. They are corrupt now. They were corrupt then.

Don't dream the small dreams of other men.

Despite that loyalty, Hrathen had never felt what Dilaf now expressed. Hrathen had no hatreds so severe that he wept, no loves so profound that he would risk everything in their name. He had always believed that he was the perfect follower of Jaddeth; that his Lord needed levelheadedness more than He needed unbridled ardor. Now, however, he wondered.

It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow's soldiers.

I was wrong though. The hike was longer than I had remembered, and I did manage to get lost. So I was wandering down there, imagining the glory of the awesome battle happening above, when my father infamously broke ranks and fled from the enemy. His own flight shot him down in retribution. By the time I got home, the battle had been won, my father was gone. And I'd been branded the daughter of a coward.

Maybe you saw me there when you glanced at the rest of the room, to see what people look like when they actually have to work to get things." He drew his lips to a line. It seemed I'd touched a nerve. Excellent. First blood.

A man can say all kinds of things, but where he sets his spheres, that's where his heart is.

Don't tell anyone I said it?" I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a Frenchman's kitchen.

Arrogant son of a supernova.

I found it interesting how humane things became once the people far up the command chain—the ones who didn't have to bleed for the decisions they made—couldn't force everyone into line.

Sazed, I've raised some fifteen daughters," Tindwyl said, entering the room. "No teenage girl is stable. Some are just better at hiding it than others.