A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
BRANDON SANDERSONA man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
BRANDON SANDERSONI take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
BRANDON SANDERSONYou first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away.
BRANDON SANDERSONAh, the outdoors,’ Shallan said. ‘I visited that mythical place once.
BRANDON SANDERSONI froze, shocked. (And don’t try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)
BRANDON SANDERSONWell Vin says that there’s something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom, then I certainly wouldn’t have used my powers to turn the land black. It just lacks flair. Red. Now, that would be an interesting color.
BRANDON SANDERSONI’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 SANDERSONToo 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 SANDERSONYes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
BRANDON SANDERSONControl yourself. Become someone who can handle this.
BRANDON SANDERSONI’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
BRANDON SANDERSONPerhaps 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.
BRANDON SANDERSONRuin 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.
BRANDON SANDERSONYou 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!
BRANDON SANDERSONHe smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn’t beaten.
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?
BRANDON SANDERSON