You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
BRANDON SANDERSONWell Vin says that there’s something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom, then I certainly wouldn’t have used my powers to turn the land black. It just lacks flair. Red. Now, that would be an interesting color.
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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.
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
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A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
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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.
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”To Parlin’s mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.
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The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
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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.
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Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that’s why there’s so much training. The ones who hold aren’t the courageous ones, they’re the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.
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That’s the point, isn’t it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We’ll win in the end.
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If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.
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This is going to take a while. I’m a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
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Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
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How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn’t occur in the present day?
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To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
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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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