Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson

"As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun. This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was."
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"As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun. This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was."
Brandon Sanderson Firefight
"Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell."
Brandon Sanderson Warbreaker
"What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue it after failure?"
Brandon Sanderson Mistborn: The Final Empire
"People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?"
Brandon Sanderson Skyward
"If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable."
Brandon Sanderson The Hero of Ages
"We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become."
Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
"In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished."
Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
"You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny."
Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
"Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination."
Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
"Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope."
Brandon Sanderson
"The human species does need a certain amount of foolhardiness. Without that, people would have been too reasonable to do frightening things—like venture close to that very hot orange stuff that turns wood black and makes Tharg’s beard smoke."
Brandon Sanderson
"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
Brandon Sanderson The Well of Ascension
"Remember, the past need not become our future as well."
Brandon Sanderson Elantris
"My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table."
Brandon Sanderson Mistborn: The Final Empire
"Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved."
Brandon Sanderson The Well of Ascension
"— Наше тело — самый удивительный инструмент. Разве не странно, что люди тратят уйму времени, настраивая двигатель машины, пока он не заурчит как положено, а со своим телом не делают того же?"
Brandon Sanderson Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."
Brandon Sanderson Words of Radiance
"For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream."
Brandon Sanderson Words of Radiance
"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
"Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes."
Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
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