Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Perspective. When you're young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we're all just the same kids wearing older bodies.

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?

There has to be a balance, Vin," he said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

Since we all go to the same place in the end, the moments we spent with each other are the only things that do matter.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. Saze

Shai's uncle Won had taught her that being bested was a rule of life. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy.

But then, he's a Smedry. That's virtually a synonym for "insane, foolhardy lunatic.

Dalinar said. "You've grown, soldier. Few men have the wisdom to realize when they need help. Fewer still have the strength to go get it. Well done. Very well done.

La clave de la felicidad no estaba en congelar todo placer momentáneo y aferrarse a ellos, sino en asegurarse de que la vida produjera muchos momentos futuros que esperar con ganas.

If there is one thing I can guarantee you about humankind, Last Listener, it is this: Provide them with a sword, and they will find a way to impale themselves upon it.

What! That's a tragedy." "Melody, everything is a tragedy to you." "Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters! That's it. No more discussion. We're going. Follow.

La suciedad no tendría que haberse amontonado tan rápidamente, con con tan pocos habitantes, la mayoría de los cuales estaban incapacitados. Era como si Elantris estuviera empeñada en morir, una ciudad suicida».

Spook stood up as nonchalantly as he could, then fled into the night.

Thus you know the fury of my anger, fell beast.

Oh, hell," Kelsier said. "There's actually a God?" "Yes." Kelsier decked him.

This , she thought, taking a deep breath, is going to be exceptionally embarrassing .

Each yoki-hijo trained in an ancient and powerful art. A deliberate, wondrous artistry requiring the full synergy of body and mind. Geological reorganization on the microscale, requiring acute understanding of gravitational equilibrium. In other words, they stacked rocks.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Syl used to think human children came out through the nose in a particularly violent sneeze

Descubrirás que el odio puede unir a la gente más rápida y más fervientemente que la devoción.

But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's live.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe. It was a conundrum, one Sazed had wrestled with. He wanted someone, something, to force him to have faith. He wanted to have to believe because of the proof shown to him. Yet, the believers whose words now filled his mind would have said he already had proof. Had he not, in his moment of despair, received an answer? As he had been about to give up, TenSoon had spoken. Sazed had begged for a sign, and received it.

But never try to be who you aren't; you don't have nearly enough practice to pull it off.

Most people make themselves look bad. I just stand to the side and don't get in the way.