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Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

Brandon Sanderson

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
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Belief Strong
A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
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Darkness Knows Person
In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.
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Arrogance End Worry
Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
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Evil Soul Vengeful Want
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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Delusion Kind Self
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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Character Hands Interesting
Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.
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Ruins Said Welcome
A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.
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Consequence Nature Push Thing
In fact, it’s so violently bitter that no one can keep it down.” “It’s nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option,” Raoden said dryly
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Cannibalism Fact Raoden Ruled
Raoden turned to regard the large Dula. “What does it matter? It’s not like we have anything pressing to do. It’s actually quite pleasant up here-you should just sit back and enjoy it.”
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Actually Clouds Matter Plesant Quite
This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren’t the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.
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Completely Cute
My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.
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Goal Happens Want
Vin: I don’t know — and it’s all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it’s all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we’ve messed you up right properly.
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Confused Faults Knows
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
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Clever Fists World
Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
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Knowing Simple Sometimes
Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do.
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Advice Alive Men

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

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