You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away.
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More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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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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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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Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.
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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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That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.
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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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Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.
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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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She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another’s problems before your own.
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A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
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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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Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards…Honestly, Kell, I’d nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. “Foolhardy?” Kelsier asked with a laugh. “that wasn’t foolhardy – that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things
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I’ve found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you’re spending too much.
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The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
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