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 SANDERSONWe were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn’t hear, long after the music actually stopped.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof?
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Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it’s never going to be perfect on your first pass.
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
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She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another’s problems before your own.
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I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.
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Well, then,” he said. “Let’s do it.” “What?” Vin asked. “Save the world.” Elend said. “Stop the ash.
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It’s not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.
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It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
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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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”To Parlin’s mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.
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I strive for nothing if not consistency
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So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic.
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I killed you once”, the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. “You tried”, Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. “But you can’t kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you’ve never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
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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.
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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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