Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

It means you're weird," M-Bot added. "Uh…," I said. "Don't worry. I like you anyway.

It might be religion, but it still has to make sense.

You must unite them, the strange, booming words had told him. You must prepare. Build of your people a fortress of strength and peace, a wall to resist the winds. Cease squabbling and unite. The Everstorm comes.

I didn't know there were so many books in the world," Syl said. "Won't they use up all the words? Seems like eventually you'd say everything that could be said!

Sadeas flushed, but kept his temper. "A whore joke, Wit? Is that the best you can manage?" Wit shrugged. "I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

The water didn't seem to have any scents or soaps applied to it, so Shallan raised the small basin and then took a long, slurping drink. "I washed my feet in that," Adolin noted.

aunque yo no hubiera venido. Un hombre solo puede dar tumbos durante un tiempo hasta que se cae o se endereza.

I love tradition," Dalinar said to Kadash. "I've fought for tradition. I make my men follow the codes. I uphold Vorin virtues. But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.

At least sit and listen. And stop looming like a mountain.

I don't have to believe," the voice drifted back. "I know gods exist. I simply hate them.

Perhaps you've owned something in your life to which you ascribed particular pleasure. A treasured toy, perhaps. Some photographs. The steel skull of your archnemesis. Now

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can—what we do that books cannot is interpret.

The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.

La medida de una persona no es cuánto ha vivido. No es lo fácilmente que salta ante un ruido o lo rápido que muestra sus emociones. Es cómo hace uso de lo que la vida le ha mostrado.

Epics have this habit of treating physics like something that happens to other people, like acne and debt.

All the things that matter in life are the things that you can't measure.…

Perhaps that was the advantage to persistently messy hair--he managed to make it go with anything.

It is one of the most bitter ironies I've ever had to accept: there are, unquestionably, musical geniuses of incomparable talent who died as street sweepers because they never had the chance to pick up an instrument.

The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process

When one achieves immortality, one must find purpose beyond the struggle to live

She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this.

It wasn't time for a show. It was time for a beating.

I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone who is particularly deserving.

Amaram and Sadeas. Two men in Kaladin's life who would, at some point, need to pay for the things they'd done.