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 SANDERSONEternity ended ten years ago.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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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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Perhaps 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.
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That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.
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A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
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Faith isn’t about logic, son,” Haddek said. “Perhaps that’s your problem. You cannot ‘disprove’ the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.
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Ruin still used Reen’s voice-it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing…it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she’d never actually seen herself.
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
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Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
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Eternity ended ten years ago.
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Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain.
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In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.
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You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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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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Those books are invariably described as “important”- which in my experience, pretty much means that they’re boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)
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Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
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