People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN’T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.
BRANDON SANDERSONThe man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.
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That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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Sometimes, son,” my father said, prying my fingers free, “you have to help the heroes along.
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You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.
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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.
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Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
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Raoden looked up at his friend. “We’re not dead, Galladon, and we’re not damned. We’re just unfinished.
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One can have a wit, but not a witless
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What did you put in the fire?” Kaladin said. “To make that special smoke?” “Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire.” “But, I saw-” “What you saw belongs to you.
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Sing!” Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right.”Sing!” If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself… I thought, cringing.
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People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.
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You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends – when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
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We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn’t hear, long after the music actually stopped.
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