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People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

Brandon Sanderson

The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you’ll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can’t simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
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Character Hands Interesting
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
Katar,” Raoden called. Yes, My Lord?” Do you know what it is? The secret, I mean?” Kahar smiled. “I havent’t been hungry in days, my lord. It is the most amazing feeling in the world-I don’t evern notice the pain anymore.” Raoden nodded, and Kahar left.
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Mean Pain Simple
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?
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Giving Guilt Responsibility Up
Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you’ve decided to have me disposed of?
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Fashion Impeccable Jealous
Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.
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Ago Eternity Worshipped Years
I strive for nothing if not consistency
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Consistency Nothing Strive
Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.
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Fate People Reading Relaxing Tea
My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?
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Existence Trying Use
People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can’t do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.
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Instance Lessons Sometimes Thinking Years
Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do.
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Advice Alive Men
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.
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Action Book Careful Tired Trying
You’re a sword not a palm tree
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Palm Sword Tree
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.
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Book Moving Want
Faith isn’t about logic, son,” Haddek said. “Perhaps that’s your problem. You cannot ‘disprove’ the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.
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Believe Hero Simply Son
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn’t hear, long after the music actually stopped.
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Long People Trying

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

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