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I 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 Sanderson

But you can’t kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you’ve never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Matter Trying Tyrants
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

Fashion Reading Religious
What was that?” Galladon demanded. “I think I just destroyed the biology section” Raoden replied with wonder.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Biology Thinking Wonder
The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Authority History Shoved Worst
[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.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Blessed Children Hurt
It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Happens Trouble Wayne
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Cute Hurt Party
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Belief Strong
Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn’t led you better.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Better Roadway Wondering
Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don’t blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They’re precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?
BRANDON SANDERSON

Giving Guilt Responsibility Up
Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Evil Soul Vengeful Want
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

End Matter Winning
Well 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 SANDERSON

Blood Running Thinking
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Delusion Kind Self
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
BRANDON SANDERSON

Holy Lists Noblemen
There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Cities People Rocks

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