I’ve seen Steelheart bleed
BRANDON SANDERSONEveryone 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.
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He 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.
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Sometimes, son,” my father said, prying my fingers free, “you have to help the heroes along.
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I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
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It’s like a banana farm for guns!
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You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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What was that?” Galladon demanded. “I think I just destroyed the biology section” Raoden replied with wonder.
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
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Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.
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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.
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A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
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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.
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You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.
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My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.
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I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
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That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
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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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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.
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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?
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Elend started. “Vin!” Then, he smiled. “What took you so long?” “I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god,” she said. “Now hustle.
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To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
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It sounds to me, young one,” Haddek said, “that you are searching for something that cannot be found.” “The truth?” Sazed said. “No,” Haddek replied. “A religion that requires no faith of its believers.
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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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You’re a sword not a palm tree
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Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you’ve decided to have me disposed of?
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The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.
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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
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