Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

He was a creature who knew three hundred religions, yet had faith in none of them. So

Please confine all assassination attempts to the school week, as I would rather not die on a Saturday.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step.

I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.

It was a brutal truth. The best truths, however, were simple.

I am depending upon you to preserve us in power by means of this art we so freely call an abomination. Our hunger for power outweighs our conscience.

We must go. Leave the Smedrys to do what they do best." "Save the world?" Grandpa asked. "Get into trouble?" Kaz asked. "Run around screaming?" I asked.

I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to," she said, then kicked the door open.

Time to think like a guard. It was hard, as he didn't have a guard's hat.

The only 'unseemly' thing is to not channel your intelligence usefully.

Wszystko kosztuje - odrzek? Ham - Ale czym s? pieni?dze? Fizyczn? interpretacj? abstrakcyjnej koncepcji wysi?ku.

Tress thought maybe he was like her Aunt Glorf, who had always fought for the best deals at the market. She'd been afraid of looking silly by being taken advantage of. The guess was as wrong as ending a sentence with a preposition. But it worked anyway. Like ending a sentence with a preposition.

Vin was coming to realize that her old goal in life - simply staying alive - was uninspired. There was so much more she could be doing.

the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

Adolin was there in a heartbeat, attacking with more skill than any other man Dalinar had known. The lad was a genius with the Blade, an artist with paint of only one shade.

Never ask of your men a sacrifice you wouldn't make yourself. Never make them fight in conditions you would refuse to fight in yourself. Never ask a man to perform an act you wouldn't soil your own hands doing.

So warm. Comfortable. And strikingly unfamiliar. What was this peace? This place without fear?

I'm sorry I drove you to suicide. Here's some bread.

I need to know about Yomen, the obligator king." "He's a good man." Vin frowned. "Oh," Slowswift said. "You didn't expect that? Everyone who is your enemy must also be an evil person?

I'm mysterious," Kaladin said. "I used to think you were. Then I found out you don't like good puns—it's truly possible to know too much about somebody.

El miedo es la herramienta de los tiranos. Por desgracia, cuando el destino del mundo está en juego, usas las herramientas que tienes a mano.

What proof do we have? The words of men long dead, only now deemed divinatory?

I died down at that chasm. Now you've got my vengeful spirit to deal with.

That was always their mistake—assuming they knew why Shai did what she did.