# Quote — Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

> You couldn’t live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know who you were, and then they started to expect things from you. It was one step from there to being gobbled up.

- Author: [Brandon Sanderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson.md)
- Book: [Edgedancer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/edgedancer.md)
- Page: 71
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Edgedancer_(2016)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/edgedancer/you-couldnt-live

## More from this book

> “But profiting off people’s emotions?”
>
> “Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.”

p. 119 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/edgedancer/but-profiting-off.md)

> “You seem to have found purpose in talkin’ a whole bunch,” Lift said. “Without being helpful to nobody.”

p. 234 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/edgedancer/you-seem-to-have.md)

> “That makes no sense.”
>
> “Of course it makes sense,” Gawx said. “It’s government.”

p. 27 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/edgedancer/that-makes-no-sense.md)