Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
BRANDON SANDERSONThe finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
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I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.
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Well, then,” he said. “Let’s do it.” “What?” Vin asked. “Save the world.” Elend said. “Stop the ash.
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I don’t have much time for stories,” Vin said. “Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days.” A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. “It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It’s not a very nice place these days.
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
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They tried boiling books, but that didn’t work very well.” “I’m surprised they haven’t tried boiling one another.” “Oh, it’s been tried,” Galladon said. “Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaod-apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn’t taste too good. Kolo?
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Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
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The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you’ll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can’t simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
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A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
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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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Act with honor, and Honor will aid you
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Those books are invariably described as “important”- which in my experience, pretty much means that they’re boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)
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That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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But you can’t kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you’ve never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
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My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
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That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.
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We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.
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It’s actually a rather romantic and dramatic story — one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.
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Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.
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I’ve seen Steelheart bleed
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An ominous crash came from the clouds above them, and Raoden felt a wet drop splat against his head. “Fantastic,” Galladon grumbled. “I’m enjoying myself already.
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Ah, the outdoors,’ Shallan said. ‘I visited that mythical place once.
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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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A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.
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My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?
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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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