Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that’s why there’s so much training. The ones who hold aren’t the courageous ones, they’re the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.
BRANDON SANDERSONI 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.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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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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Wayne’s a little attached to that hat,” Waxillium said. “He thinks it’s lucky.” Wayne: “It is lucky. I ain’t never died while wearing that hat.” Marasi frowned. “I … I’m not sure I know how to respond.” Wax: “That’s a common reaction to Wayne.
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I’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
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Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
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If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
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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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That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.
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People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.
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True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.
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Katar,” Raoden called. Yes, My Lord?” Do you know what it is? The secret, I mean?” Kahar smiled. “I havent’t been hungry in days, my lord. It is the most amazing feeling in the world-I don’t evern notice the pain anymore.” Raoden nodded, and Kahar left.
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I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.
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Every man is a hero of his own story.
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Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
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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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