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Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

Brandon Sanderson

…Generally people don’t recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Book Meaningful Teacher
Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. “I don’t get it, El. Why’d she attack him?” “She’s loony,” Spook said.
BRANDON SANDERSON

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

Different Elevators Frightened
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Doctors Reading Writing
Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Book Track Two
Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler.” Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact.
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Best Effort People Use
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Delusion Kind Self
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn’t hear, long after the music actually stopped.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Long People Trying
Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?
BRANDON SANDERSON

Consequences Doe Done Evil
Think of the possibilities–if the ash were red, the rivers would run like blood. Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red–you’d always be thinking, ‘Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.
BRANDON SANDERSON

About Look Monotonous Possiblities River Think
How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Frowning Happy Person
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions “moral” after a fashion.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Fashion Reading Religious
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn’t beaten.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Grief Lord Men
I strive for nothing if not consistency
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Consistency Nothing Strive
You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Breeze Ham Idiot
Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Absence Discomfort Joy

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