Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

That was the thing about omens—they were made up. Imagined signals of something nebulous. So why not make them up to be something positive?

He had been more complex than that. Every person was.

I will take responsibility for what I have done. If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man

He felt an immediate spike of panic—which he shot in the head and dumped in a lake.

The haze cleared. My finger twitched, but I had not pulled the trigger. A figure stood from a crouch in the dust; he had fallen from above. He wore a black coat-thin, like a lab coat-dark trousers, black boots, and a pair of goggles over his eyes.

Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better - a member of a community where every individual was vital.

Tú lo tienes todo extraordinario, Trenza. Por eso no hay nada en particular que destaque.

Venli attuned Anxiety, then Confidence, then Anxiety again.

A veces, un hipócrita no es más que una persona en proceso de cambio.

Afterward, Ann did ask what was so great about this guy she loved. Tress did her best to explain, though she was certain world-traveled people like them would find her love plain and unremarkable. She underestimated the power of simple words spoken with passion. No one questioned her after that.

Oh, I'm not objecting," Navani said. "I'd let a confused dishwasher marry us.

But isn't it remarkable that, given the chance for personal gain at the cost of others, so many people choose what is right?" "Because they fear the Almighty." "No," Jasnah said. "I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god's decree.

No teenage girl is stable. Some are just better at hiding it than others.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them." Her

All great art is hated

The human mind was very clever at tricking itself, at keeping the despair of inevitability at bay.

Afraid so. But you can't go someplace a second time until you been there a first time, I reckon. Everyone has to stand out sometime

She looked up at me, and though there were tears in the corners of her eyes, she wasn't weeping. She was laughing. "You," she said, "are an utter fool, David Charleston. I wish you weren't also so adorable.

Qué clase de cosas puedes romper? -De todo tipo. Puertas, dispositivos electrónicos, mesas... Una vez rompí un pollo. -¿Un pollo? -Sí, estaba de excursión. Me... frustré y cogí un pollo. Cuando lo solté, se le cayeron de golpe todas las plumas y, a partir de entonces, se negó a comer otra cosa que no fuera comida para gatos.

Each robe was embroidered with the Double Eye of the Almighty, and Shallan had a fleeting thought, wondering at the seamstress they'd hired to do all this work. What had they told her? "Yes, we want twenty identical, mysterious robes, sewn with ancient arcane symbols. They're for Ã¢â'¬Â¦ parties.

I told you that if you are going to do something, son. You need to do it with all of your heart. You have something you didn't have before. Hope. You've defeated one of them. They can be beaten.

Imager isn't set up yet," Prof said. "So we'll do this the old-fashioned way. Mizzy, you're low man on the team roster. You get scribe duties." She hopped up from her chair and actually seemed excited by the prospect. She took a marker and wrote Reckoner Super Plan for Killing Regalia at the top of the sheet. Each i was dotted with a heart.

This work I do, it's about passion, Vin. It's about dynamic events; it's about change!

A storm is not an object like a box or a tree. Even to the more scientifically-minded, storms are more notion than numbers. When does a drizzle become a downpour, and when does a downpour become a storm? There's no firm line. It's about how you feel.