Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Speak dumb person, please.

You cannot have my pain.

Prince Raoden of Arelon awoke early that morning, completely unaware that he had been damned for all eternity.

No, I lost every one," Hesho said. "The rest of the assembly voted unanimously against my desires in each matter. What rotten luck! Ah, the indignities you must suffer when your people are a true democracy, and not a shadow dictatorship ruled by an ancestral line of kings. Right?" The other kitsen flying past raised a cheer for democracy.

Sometimes, the answers we need don't match the questions we're asking." He looked up at me. "And sometimes, the coward makes fools of wiser men.

But after spending ages walking around with everyone piling bricks in your arms, it can throw you off balance when someone removes a brick to carry for you.

Honestly, I don't know that the universe yould really handle everyone being infinite Batmans. Perhaps the point of God was to prevent nonsense like that.

Like it or not, you are a part of the workings of this kingdom—and you produce effects even if you stay in bed. If you do nothing, then the problems are as much your fault as if you had instigated them.

But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If

All right, all right. No need to get grouchy just because I insulted you.

But still, my 'freedom' is that of a leaf. Dropped from the tree, I just blow on the wind and pretend I'm in charge of my destiny.

Es el intelecto del genio lo que reverenciamos? [...] Dadas dos obras de majestuosidad artística, sopesadas por igual, daremos más valor a quien la hizo primero. No importa lo que crees. Importa que lo crees antes que nadie. No es la belleza lo que admiramos, ni la fuerza del intelecto, ni la inventiva, ni la estética, ni la capacidad misma. El mayor talento que creemos que puede tener un hombre debe ser la novedad.

And which would you rather live in? The fake prison where you think you are free, or the real prison where you spend each day in drudgery?

Some important decisions were made on a battlefield or in a conference room. But others happened quietly, unseen by others. That didn't make the decision any less important to Sazed. He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to.

You think he'll live?' Tonk Fah asked. 'He just fell out the third-story window, plummeting toward certain doom,' Denth said. 'Of course he'll live!

Wondering where the Mokians get all those shark teeth? Well it involves using children who read the last pages of books first as bait.

I knew you'd glow

Igual que no temo a un niño con un arma que no puede levantar, nunca temeré a la mente de un hombre que no piensa.»

Sometimes, when you stepped in something foul, the only thing to do was stop walking and make the effort to clean it off.

No man can judge another man's heart or trials, for no man can truly know them.

Do not deny your own talents simply because you envy another's.

Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men- only the things they want are different.

How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.

Be slow to trust a man with clothing that was too new. You didn't get to wear new, clean clothing by doing honest work.