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Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

Brandon Sanderson

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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Burden Men Should
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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Book Kings Matter
A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.
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Consequence Nature Push Thing
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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Ending Time Wheels
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
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Belief Strong
Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.
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Fate People Reading Relaxing Tea
I’m just good at ignoring the fact that I’m terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you’ll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.
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Cobblestones Ignore Probably
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
I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.
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Betrayal Hurt Pain
When I write my books, actually I’m known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
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Book Feet Writing
There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location.
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Cities People Rocks
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.
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Book Language Life
…somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
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Boring Philosopher Topics
Eternity ended ten years ago.
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Eternity Mundane Years
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy’s face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.
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Ago Boys Expectations Long
Sometimes, son,” my father said, prying my fingers free, “you have to help the heroes along.
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Father Hero Son

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