Brandon Sanderson

Quotes

1. The trouble wasn’t getting answers. It was finding the presence of mind to accept them.

   p. 894

2. 

   The man who forges weapons can claim he’s never killed, but he still prepares for the slaughter.

   p. 795

3. 

   “You’re not a monster, Shallan,” Wit whispered. “Oh, child. The world is monstrous at times, and there are those who would have you believe that you are terrible by association.”

   “I am.”

   “No. For you see, it flows the other direction. You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.”

   p. 791

4. 

   “When has any tyrant ever said to himself, ‘This is enough’?”

   p. 1051

5. 

   Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.

   p. 967

6. 

   “Funny, isn’t it, how so many of our stories start the same way, but have opposing endings? In half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders. There aren’t many stories about the kids who say, ‘Yes, I shall not go into the forest. I’m glad my parents explained that is where the monsters live.’”

   p. 790

7. 

   “Do you believe?” Kaladin asked as he advanced. “In God, or the Almighty or whatever?”

   “I don’t have to believe,” the voice drifted back. “I know gods exist. I simply hate them.”

   p. 221

8. 

   Would you prefer a reinforcement of what you already want to believe, or do you seek the truth?

   p. 242

9. 

   “‘The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what' you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and "how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.’”

   p. 981

10. 

    “Don’t you care?”

    “About a man I don’t know?” Azure said. “In danger from a threat you can’t define, happening at a time you can’t pinpoint?” She folded her arms. “Forgive me for not sharing in your anxiety.”

    p. 1011

11. 

    That was the coward’s route. Wishing for ignorance.

    p. 824

12. 

    The fact that these had thrown their lives away so wantonly did not speak highly of their master.

    p. 56