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Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Brandon Sanderson

How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn’t occur in the present day?
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Carefully Occur Present Day
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
I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.
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Decent Insult Men Mines
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.
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Death Journey Weakness
Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him.
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Ground Heaps Movement Twist
The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.
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Belief Safe Thinking
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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Ended Insane Lying People
The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
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Make Men Motivation Sense
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
[Omin] …All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise – some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another.
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Blessed Children Hurt
Be warned – Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
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Army Optimistic Skills
This is going to take a while. I’m a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
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Brevity Fantasy Trouble
Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
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Absence Discomfort Joy
It is a time of change,” Sazed said. ”Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.
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Change Said Truth Way
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
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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Giving Purpose Thinking

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