Kelsier smiled. ‘It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.’
BRANDON SANDERSONYou’re a sword not a palm tree
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
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Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
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You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I’ll never know.” Breeze laughed. “Now, that’s a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn’t!
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Yet she was beginning to think that she– along with others– had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.
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Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don’t blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They’re precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?
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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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…somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
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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.
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Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain.
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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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My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
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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.
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One can have a wit, but not a witless
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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 am what the universe made me to be, my dear.
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