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  • #1
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Ten spears go to battle," he whispered, "and nine shatter. Did the war forge the one that remained? No, Amaran. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #2
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #3
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #4
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    tags: pain

  • #5
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #6
    Brandon Sanderson
    “To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #7
    Brandon Sanderson
    “He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.

    Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.

    It was the single most beautiful thing he鈥檇 seen in his entire life.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #8
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #9
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

  • #10
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

  • #11
    Brandon Sanderson
    “That hat looks ridiculous.鈥�
    鈥淔ortunately, I can change hats,鈥� Wayne said, 鈥渨hile you, sir, are stuck with that face.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

  • #12
    Brandon Sanderson
    Hello, a cheerful voice said in his mind. Would you like to destroy some evil today?
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #13
    Brandon Sanderson
    “It will,鈥� Wit said, 鈥渂ut then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

  • #14
    Brandon Sanderson
    “How . . .鈥� Dalinar said. 鈥淵ou fell into a chasm!鈥�
    鈥淚 fell face-first, sir,鈥� Kaladin said, 鈥渁nd fortunately, I鈥檓 particularly hard-headed.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #15
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Enjoy memories, yes, but don't be a slave to who you wish you once had been.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • #16
    Brandon Sanderson
    “That is one of the great mistakes people make: assuming that someone who does menial work does not like thinking. Physical labor is great for the mind, as it leaves all kinds of time to consider the world. Other work, like accounting or scribing, demands little of the body鈥攂ut siphons energy from the mind.

    If you wish to become a storyteller, here is a hint: sell your labor, but not your mind. Give me ten hours a day scrubbing a deck, and oh the stories I could imagine. Give me ten hours adding sums, and all you鈥檒l have me imagining at the end is a warm bed and a thought-free evening.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • #17
    Brandon Sanderson
    “One of the great tragedies of life is knowing how many people in the world are made to soar, paint, sing, or steer鈥攅xcept they never get the chance to find out.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • #18
    Brandon Sanderson
    “...Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much鈥攑ain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #19
    Brandon Sanderson
    “I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.鈥�
    鈥淵es, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

  • #20
    Brandon Sanderson
    “It鈥檚 a common mistake to assume that someone is weak because they are accommodating. If you think this, you might be the type who has no idea how much effort鈥攈ow much strength鈥攊t takes to put up with your nonsense.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • #21
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Please,鈥� Shallan said to the sphere. 鈥淚 need you to become fire.鈥�
    Pattern buzzed, speaking with a new voice, interpreting the sphere鈥檚 words. 鈥淚 am a stick,鈥� he said. He sounded satisfied.
    鈥淵ou could be fire,鈥� Shallan said.
    鈥淚 am a stick.鈥�
    The stick was not particularly eloquent. She supposed that she shouldn鈥檛 be surprised.
    鈥淲hy don鈥檛 you become fire instead?鈥�
    鈥淚 am a stick.鈥�
    鈥淗ow do I make it change?鈥� Shallan asked of Pattern.
    鈥淢m . . . I do not know. You must persuade it. Offer it truths, I think?鈥� He sounded agitated. 鈥淭his place is dangerous for you. For us. Please. Speed.鈥�
    She looked back at the stick.
    鈥淵ou want to burn.鈥�
    鈥淚 am a stick.鈥�
    鈥淭hink how much fun it would be?鈥�
    鈥淚 am a stick.鈥�
    鈥淪tormlight,鈥� Shallan said. 鈥淵ou could have it! All that I鈥檓 holding.鈥�
    A pause. Finally, 鈥淚 am a stick.鈥�
    鈥淪ticks need Stormlight. For . . . things . . .鈥� Shallan blinked away tears of fatigue.
    鈥淚 am鈥斺€�
    鈥溾€攁 stick,鈥� Shallan said.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
    tags: humor

  • #22
    Brandon Sanderson
    “I wasn't complaining', Pattern complained.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #23
    Brandon Sanderson
    “She studied him. Then the sword burst to mist, vaporizing. She lowered her arm. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 have time for you. A storm is coming, a terrible storm. It will bring the Voidbringers to鈥斺€� 鈥淎lready here.鈥� 鈥淒amnation. We need to find Urithiru and鈥斺€� 鈥淎lready found.鈥� She hesitated. 鈥淭he Knights鈥斺€� 鈥淩efounded,鈥� Wit said. 鈥淚n part by your apprentice who, I might add, is exactly seventy-seven percent more agreeable than you are. I took a poll.鈥� 鈥淵ou鈥檙e lying.鈥� 鈥淥kay, so it was a rather informal poll. But the ugly lizard-crab-thing gave you really poor marks for鈥�”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #24
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Why do you care?"
    "Because someone has to.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #25
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Never let something trivial, like a sense of humor, get in the way of a good joke.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • #26
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Wayne claimed to have memorized the names of all of the different possible combinations of Twinborn. Of course, Wayne also claimed to have once stolen a horse that belched in perfect musical notes, so one learned to take what he said with a pinch of copper.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

  • #27
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Have you ever had to choose between two equally distasteful choices?鈥�
    鈥淓very day I choose to keep breathing.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #28
    Brandon Sanderson
    “But after spending ages walking around with everyone piling bricks in your arms, it can throw you off balance when someone removes a brick to carry for you.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • #29
    Brandon Sanderson
    “There isn鈥檛 much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

  • #30
    Brandon Sanderson
    “She felt less like a mere human being, and more like a human who was merely being.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea



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