Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

"This lot won't suffer you forever. I wouldn't see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within you Wit."Yes, He tasted quite delicious."

"Does the king know you're back"Nope! I'm trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison, singing an ode to my magnificence."That sounds… hard."Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation."I have no idea what you just said."Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation."

"I hope to return. I’ll do so if I’m not killed. Probably will anyway."

"One can have a wit, but not a witless"

"Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion."Which is what" Teft asked. "With spears"Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here."How then" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious."Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing."“How's that a duel?”"He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about."Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose."

"To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care."

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."

"Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself."

"He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible."

"Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could managed the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable than a beggar?Sometimes I think that I am. The beggar knows much that the king can only guess. And yet who draws up the codes for begging ordinances? Often I wonder what my experience in life--my easy life following the Desolation, and my current level of comfort--has given me of any true experience to use in making laws. If we had to rely on what we knew, kings would only be of use in creating laws regarding the proper heating of tea and the cushioning of thrones."

"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."

"Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth."

"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 we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts."

"You learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“Er…yes?”He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more."

"Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes."

"Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her"I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation," he said."She is a heretic."She refused to join any of the devotaries because she did not believe in their teachings. Rather than compromise for the sake of appearances, she has been honest and has refused to make professions she does not believe. I find that a sign of honor."

"Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees."

"It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there."

"A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known."

"Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and w"