If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
BRANDON SANDERSONHow 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?
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
-
-
Why do they call it research if I’ve only done it this one time?
BRANDON SANDERSON -
To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
Yet she was beginning to think that she– along with others– had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
How do you ‘accidentally’ kill a noble man in his own mansion?” “With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
It is a time of change,” Sazed said. ”Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
BRANDON SANDERSON -
The wood bounced off the man’s helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
In fact, it’s so violently bitter that no one can keep it down.” “It’s nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option,” Raoden said dryly
BRANDON SANDERSON -
One can have a wit, but not a witless
BRANDON SANDERSON -
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.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
…Generally people don’t recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
They tried boiling books, but that didn’t work very well.” “I’m surprised they haven’t tried boiling one another.” “Oh, it’s been tried,” Galladon said. “Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaod-apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn’t taste too good. Kolo?
BRANDON SANDERSON -
Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. “I don’t get it, El. Why’d she attack him?” “She’s loony,” Spook said.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
I loathe what you’ve done. What has happened to you?’ Test him!’ Rand whispered, voice dangerous. ‘Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
…somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
I still doubt it will work.” “You’d doubt the sun’s rising if you weren’t proven wrong each day,” Raoden said with a smile.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
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.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
BRANDON SANDERSON -
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.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
BRANDON SANDERSON -
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.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
That’s the point, isn’t it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We’ll win in the end.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends – when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
BRANDON SANDERSON