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When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I’ll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I’m trying to increase my general understanding.

Brandon Sanderson

Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.
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Happens Matter Mean
War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he’s still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.
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Caught Dreamer Violence War
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
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Belief Strong
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
Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.
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Ears Eyes Pain
[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
This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren’t the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.
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Completely Cute
Raoden looked up at his friend. “We’re not dead, Galladon, and we’re not damned. We’re just unfinished.
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Gallon Looked Unfinished
My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
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Hallucination Mad Names
You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Heart Men Pure
Waxillium glanced at him. “That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
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Fortunately Pretzel Ridiculous
Think of the possibilities–if the ash were red, the rivers would run like blood. Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red–you’d always be thinking, ‘Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.
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About Look Monotonous Possiblities River Think
To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.
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Believe Seemed Want
Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.
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Ignorance Stupidity Unknowing
I 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.
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Fashion Reading Religious
You said their prayer – is this the religion you believe in, then?” “I believe in them all.” Vin frowned. “None of them contradict each other?” Sazed smiled. “Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Believe Frequently Prayer Said Smile

When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I’ll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I’m trying to increase my general understanding.

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When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I’ll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I’m trying to increase my general understanding.

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