Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze

Eternity ended ten years ago.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

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. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.

‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.