# Quote — Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

> She let the world consume her. The familiar sound of pencil on paper, the focus of creation. Beauty was out there, all around. To create art was not to capture it, but to participate in it.

- Author: [Brandon Sanderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson.md)
- Book: [Words of Radiance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance.md)
- Page: 554
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/she-let-the

## More from this book

> “I have to protect him,” Kaladin whispered.
>
> Why?
>
> “If I protect …” He coughed. “If I protect…only the people I like, it means that I don’t care about doing what is right.” If he did that, he only cared about what was convenient for himself.
>
> That wasn’t protecting. That was selfishness.

p. 1014 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/i-have-to-protect.md)

> To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.

p. 901 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/to-age-truly.md)

> Adeline placed the glyphward in the brazier, then bowed his head as it burned. A prayer to the Almighty for aid. His combatants for the day would probably be burning their own prayers. How did the Almighty decide whom to help?

p. 655 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/adeline-placed-the.md)