Brandon Sanderson

Quotes

1. The difference between a successful thief and a dead thief is knowing when to escape with your takings.

   p. 687

2. 

   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.

   p. 71

3. 

   Too few people listened to anything other than their own thoughts.

   p. 250

4. 

   I watched you keep your word with perfection. This is a thing lost to most people—it is the only genuine beauty in the world.

   p. 1063

5. 

   All stories have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

   p. 730

6. 

   “The storm caught him,” Kaladin said.

   “The storm catches everyone, eventually. Does it matter?”

   “I don’t know.”

   “Good.” Wit tipped his sword up toward his forehead, as if in respect. “Then you have something to think about.”

   p. 731

7. 

   Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

   p. 937

8. 

   “When did you get so peppy?” she shouted.

   “Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn’t.”

   “Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while,” she snapped. “If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!”

   p. 863

9. 

   To be human was often to be forced to choose between distasteful options.

   p. 801

10. 

    “We just need to be more optimistic.”

    “Being optimistic does not change facts.”

    p. 455

11. 

    She’d had so much more time when she was younger. She couldn’t help thinking she’d wasted much of it.

    p. 554

12. 

    Shallan smiled at the wonderful surroundings, the light rainfall, the beautiful plant life. A little dampness was a small price to pay for the melodious sound of sprinkling rain, for fresh clean air and a beautiful sky full of clouds that varied in every shade of grey.

    p. 626