Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Storms, woman," [Kaladin] said. "I don't know what to make of you." "Preferably not a corpse." "I'm surprised someone hasn't already done that.

Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.

What you did tonight was clever," Wit said. "You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves. --Second Ideal of the Knights Radiant

I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

I will protect those I hate. Even if the one I hate most is myself.

Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He'd done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.

Love wasn't about being right or wrong, but about standing up and helping when your partner's back was bowed.

I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.

Let them see my weakness, and let them see me overcome it.

A person knows when they're in darkness, even when they can't see. -Nightblood

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

No one ever accomplished anything by being content with who they were, Shallan," Adolin said. "We accomplish great things by reaching toward who we could become." "As long as it's what you want to become. Not what someone else thinks you should become.

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.

She had a way of pouring everything of herself into what she did. When she fought, she was the blade. When she loved, she was the kiss. In that regard, she was far more Ã¢â'¬Â¦ human than any I have known.

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king […] White to be bold. White to not blend into the night. White to give warning. For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming.

Let your actions defend you, not your words.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

As long as you keep trying, there's a chance. When you give up? That's when the dream dies.

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

All right.First, find me a cliff" "That,will it give you a vantage to see the area?" "No," said Kaladin. "It will give me something to throw you off of

And the warrior's way was not to run from failure, but to own up to it and do better.