”To Parlin’s mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.
BRANDON SANDERSONPerhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man’s opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I’m the one with the armies.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight’s magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?”)
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How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof?
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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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I strive for nothing if not consistency
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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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The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.
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Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you’ve decided to have me disposed of?
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
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So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic.
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There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.
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It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
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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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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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…somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
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You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends – when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
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