Brandon Sanderson

Quotes

1. “What do you know?”

   “Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”

   “What do you want, then?”

   “What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else.”

   p. 639

2. 

   Better to be overly cautious than naive.

   p. 632

3. 

   “I ain’t grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”

   p. 501

4. 

   That was the problem with sneaking about. If nothing seemed to have gone wrong, you rarely knew if it was because you were safe, or if someone had spotted you and just hadn’t done anything. Yet.

   p. 497

5. 

   Jasnah hadn’t cared what people thought of her, yet had always kept her appearance immaculate. Not that Jasnah had acted alluringly—never for a moment. In fact, she’d disparaged such behavior in no uncertain terms. Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will, she’d said. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

   No, Jasnah had not approved of seduction as a tool. However, people responded differently to those who looked in control of themselves.

   p. 228

6. 

   “The men are happy.”

   “And you?”

   “Bored. All we do every day is sit around, collect what you pay us, and go drinking.”

   “Most men would consider that an ideal profession.” She smiled at En, then climbed into the coach.

   Vathah shut the door for her, then looked in the window. “Most men are idiots.”

   p. 552

7. 

   “You really don’t think highly of the others, do you?” Shallan asked.

   “I hate them,” Sebarial said. “But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don’t risk leaving out anyone who is particularly deserving. Anyway, here we are. Don’t expect me to help you out of the carriage.”

   p. 460

8. 

   “I am a soldier, not a musician,” Kaladin said. “Besides, music is for women.”

   “All people are musicians,” Wit countered. “The question is whether or not they share their songs. As for music being feminine, it’s interesting that the woman who wrote that treatise—the one you all practically worship in Alethkar—decided that all of the feminine tasks involve sitting around having fun while all the masculine ones involve finding someone to stick a spear in you. Telling, eh?”

   p. 638

9. 

   Do not make me kick you. I do not like kicking. It hurts my toes.

   p. 60

10. 

    “That was a joke, bridgeboy.”

    “My mistake. I was under the impression that jokes were supposed to be funny.”

    “Only to people with a sense of humor.”

    “Ah, of course,” Kaladin said. “I traded in my sense of humor long ago.”

    “And what did you get for it?”

    “Scars,” Kaladin said softly.

    p. 636

11. 

    “If the afterlife really is a big war,” Kaladin said, then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.”

    p. 475

12. 

    “I know full well how to have a good time.”

    “Is that so?”

    “Yes. It involves being anywhere you aren’t.”

    p. 640