Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

I tried my best to hide this , the Stormfather said. "So we could continue living a lie?" It is, in my experience, the thing men do best.

Hello?" M-Bot said. "Spensa? Are you dead?" "Maybe." "Oooh. Like the cat!

Atheism is not a disease, Your Majesty," Jasnah said dryly. "It's not as if I've caught a foot rash.

Ah, Ham, Kelsier thought. I wish I could explain everything to you. Plots behind plots, plans beyond plans. There was always another secret.

Apparently, some people in the department made the brilliant connection that if you kill all your recruits before you have time to train them, you'll soon run out of recruits." I

those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone.

What?" Adolin asked. "You don't get women coming to watch while you spar, bridgeboy? Little darkeyed ladies, missing seven teeth and afraid of bathing . . .

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.

And yet, any who know me will realize that there was no chance I would give up so easily. Once I find something to investigate, I become dogged in my pursuit.

Well, when the fear of death seizes you – when the dark thoughts come – you stare the darkness right back, and you tell it, "I will not listen to you, for I am infinite Batmans.

It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy the pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

I know the second oath I am to make. I don't need to be told it. I will unite instead of divide, Stormfather. I will bring men together

Evolution doesn't 'try' to do anything," M-Bot said. "But like it or not, you are the pinnacle of its work. All evolutionary pressures throughout all the ages among your species have resulted in you.

In the end, it wasn't the wealth or the job's thrill that made her stay. It was the shadowed prospect—unlikely and unreasonable, but still seductive—of a group whose members actually trusted one another.

Time, the Stormfather said. Which, though dross to him, is the most valuable thing a man can have.

you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

Why let the young folk have all the dumb ideas?

Everybody evaluates. We critics are just trained to talk about it.

Life is changing. We will all feel alone because of this, yes? Ha! Perhaps we can feel alone together.

Vin looked down at the handkerchief. Whena nobleman wants to court a lady seriously, he gives her a handkerchief.

only seen a glimpse of it in the bright light: an outfit of Nalhallan design, with big epaulettes* on the shoulders and all kinds of ropes and ribbons and buttons and things, intended to make officers stand out on a battlefield and get shot first so the soldiers doing the real fighting are safe.

He always watched and studied. He was a king—and you could not properly dominate that which you did not understand.

He was rambling. But, oddly, his mind felt clearer now than it had in weeks. Perhaps it was the clarity of perspective. Most men spent their entire lives wondering about the future. Well, his future was empty now.