Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

All things are math. Art especially is math.

He felt good lots of days. Trouble was, on the bad days, that was hard to remember. At those times, for some reason, he felt like he had always been in darkness, and always would be. Why was it so hard to remember? Did he have to keep slipping back down? Why couldn't he stay up here in the sunlight, where everyone else lived?

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.

Bastards!" Wayne said. "Wayne!" "Fine! Regular old turds then!

La libertad no era la ausencia de responsabilidad: era ser capaz de hacer lo que estaba bien, sin necesidad de preocuparse porque también pudiera estar mal.

Pulling and Pushing against metals usually felt less like flying than it did like falling—only in the wrong direction.

That is sarcasm," Susebron said. "She is quite fond of it.

I could have traveled quickly. But all men have the same ultimate destination.

What is more one try, then?" Her voice was soft, yet somehow stronger than the storm. "What could it hurt?

If we slow down, Jasnah said, the past catches up to us. History is like that, always gobbling up the present.

Too many of us," she said, "take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

La esperanza es algo grandioso, y tener héroes resulta esencial para la aspiración humana. (...) Dicho eso, sí que tenéis que aprender a separar la historia y la forma en que te ha afectado del individuo que le dio pie.

no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it.

It's interesting that the woman who wrote that treatise – the one you all practically worship in Alethkar –decided that all of the feminine tasks involve sitting around having fun while all the masculine ones involve finding someone to stick a spear in you. Telling, eh?

Where there are villains, there will be heroes

not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Kelsier had, apparently, insisted on laughing, no matter how bad the situation. It had been a form of rebellion to him.

A few lessons, and you think you're through? We've barely begun. You are still a fool, Elend Venture- you just don't look like one anymore.

Of course," Blushweaver said. "I positively love people who do as they should. 'Should' being defined as whatever I think is best.

You have good ideas, Elend Venture," Tindwyl said. "Regal ideas. However, you are not a king. A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

Keep forgetting that y'all are freakishly informed about this stuff.

the lack of color in these places is what keeps people sick so long.

When I'm at my worst, I feel like I can't change. Like I've never changed. That I've always felt this way, and always will.

Death is the end of all men!" Dalinar bellowed. "What is the measure of him once he is gone? The wealth he accumulated and left for his heirs to squabble over? The glory he obtained, only to be passed on to those who slew him? The lofty positions he held through happenstance? "No. We fight here because we understand. The end is the same. It is the path that separates men. When we taste that end, we will do so with our heads held high, eyes to the sun.