Brandon Sanderson

Quotes

1. “Where is he?”

   “Doing things he finds very important. I would fault him for it, as I find nothing more frightening than a man trying to do what he has decided is important. Very little in the world has ever gone astray—at least on a grand scale—because a person decided to be frivolous.”

   p. 526

2. 

   Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history, and…

   p. 23

3. 

   “I know you do not mean this. Context allows me to infer what you truly mean. In a way, the very phrase is a lie.”

   “It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”

   “Those are some of the best lies.”

   p. 480

4. 

   “This is the tiresome part of the feast, where the conversation grows louder but no smarter, and the company drunken.”

   “Many people consider that sort of thing enjoyable.”

   “Many people, unfortunately, are idiots.”

   p. 19

5. 

   “Not so crude then, if it almost killed him.”

   “Pardon, Torol, but almost is a big distinction in assassinations.”

   p. 350

6. 

   It wasn’t a lie. It was a different truth.

   p. 424

7. 

   “Hmmm. Someone has a high opinion of himself. Comes with being royalty, I suppose. Like funny hats and a fondness for beheadings.”

   p. 507

8. 

   To be human is to seek beauty.

   p. 528

9. 

   “Storms,” she breathed. “Those are all different kinds of wine?”

   “Yeah,” Adolin said. He leaned toward her, as if conspiratorial. “Honestly, I don’t pay a lot of attention. Renarin knows the difference between them—he’ll drone on if you let him. Me, I order something that sounds important, but I’m really just choosing based on color.”

   p. 568

10. 

    His mother would probably lament how little Kaladin care for religious observance. The way Kaladin figured it, the Almighty didn’t show much concern for him, so why care back?

    p. 235

11. 

    “And so,” he said, “in the end, what must we determine? Is it the intellect of a genius that we revere? If it were their artistry, the beauty of their mind, would we not laud it regardless of whether we’d seen their product before?

    “But we don’t. Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn’t matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else.

    “So it’s not the beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talent that we think a man can have?” He plucked one final string. “Seems to me that it must be nothing more than novelty.”

    p. 1000

12. 

    Pattern hummed. “Truth is individual.”

    “What? No it’s not. Truth is…it’s Truth. Reality.”

    p. 308