Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

you will never find a murderess more intoxicating, more entrancing, than the sea.

It won't be cold in the parlor," she said. "Or Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, maybe it will. But everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.

It was as if he were as comfortable when sitting properly as other people were when lounging.

They don't see losing a third of the city as a disaster—they see saving two-thirds of it as a miracle.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will, she'd said. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

He'd had a year to think about what to say. And if he failed, he'd have an eternity to think about what he'd done wrong.

It looked like a bird - in the same way that a wolf looked like a lapdog.

Everywhere I step, I find only corners," Father whispered. "Slowly, they trap me.

You don't have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences, if you must. But don't pity me for my faith. And don't premuse that you're better, just because you believe something different.

But we don't have to be like that," Hurl continued. "That's what I realized. A little fear, a little history, those things don't mean anything. Only what we do means anything.

She took my other sense of taste. The important one. And with it went my sense of humor, my sense of decorum, my sense of purpose, and my sense of self. The last one stung the most, since it appears my sense of self is tied directly to my wit. I mean, it's in the name

You have to learn when to care, son. His father's voice. And when to let go. You'll grow calluses. He never had. Storm him, he never had. It was why he'd never made a good surgeon. He couldn't lose patients.

This is going to be about zombies. I'm calling it now.

Llarimar raised an eyebrow. The value in something relates to how it is treated, Your Grace. If you see these items as junk, then they are, regardless of what someone else would pay for them.

But you know what I think? I think you're looking for excuses to not let go. This ting, it's who you are. And no mansion, no marriage, and no mere title is going to change that." Wayne tipped his hat. "You're meant to be helping people, mate. It's what you do.

If you can't arrive early, at least arrive before you're late.'

Try not to flirt with the girl," Wit whispered. "Young Adolin seems to be growing possessive. Or... what am I saying? Flirt with the girl, Kaladin. It might make the prince's eyes bulge.

People generally don't know what they want, though they almost uniformly hate being told what it should be.

I," she said as the room hushed again, "know of no other conference like this in the history of Roshar. Perhaps they were common in the days of the Knights Radiant, but certainly nothing like it has occured since the Recreance. I would like to both welcome and thank you, our noble guests. Today we make history." "It only took a Desolation to cause it," Sebarial said from the food table. "The world should end more often. It makes everyone so much more accommodating.

You don't fit in, but you're not broken. You're just different. And they're going to need you someday. I promise it.

So?" Kaladin asked her. "What do you think?" "I think you're going to look extremely silly using it. I can't wait.

I kind of lost track of time...." "For two hours?" Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.

Never trust a man who tells you good news, Reen had always said. It's the oldest, but easiest, way to con someone.

She didn't open up to me until I gave her my honest face." "Your honest face doesn't have to be that of a killer, Dalinar." Dalinar and Navani