Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Personally, I say, Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them. However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

~ Brandon Sanderson

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

~ Brandon Sanderson

You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.

~ Brandon Sanderson

What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

~ Brandon Sanderson

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

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

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Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!

~ Brandon Sanderson

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

~ Brandon Sanderson

So... wait. You're saying that on the other side―where I obviously believed in the other side―I realized that if I Returned I wouldn't believe in the other side, so I came back with the purpose of discovering faith in the other side, which I only lost because I Returned in the first place?Llarimar paused. Then he smiled. That last one breaks down a little bit in the face of logic, doesn't it?

~ Brandon Sanderson

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

~ Brandon Sanderson

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—”“Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.”“I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it’s pointed at someone else.

~ Brandon Sanderson

To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.

~ Brandon Sanderson

This is insanity!No, this is scholarship!

~ Brandon Sanderson

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

~ Brandon Sanderson

So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?

~ Brandon Sanderson

I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

~ Brandon Sanderson

What do you know?”“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”“What do you want, then?”“What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.

~ Brandon Sanderson

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

~ Brandon Sanderson

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. You 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. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Emergency? Knighthawk sent. I’m just bored.I blinked, holding my phone and rereading that text.Bored? I sent. You’re literally spying on the entire world, Knighthawk. You can read anyone’s mail, listen to anyone’s phone calls.First, it’s not the whole world, he wrote. Only large chunks of North and Central America. Second, do you have any idea how mind-numbingly DULL most people are?I started a reply, but a flurry of messages came at me, interrupting what I was going to say.Oh! Knighthawk wrote. Look at this pretty flower!Hey. I want to know if you like me, but I can’t say that, so here’s an awkward flirtation instead.Where are you?I’m here.Where?Here.There?No, here.Oh.Look at my kid.Look at my dog.Look at me.Look at me holding my kid and dog.Hey, everyone. I took a huge koala this morning.Barf. The world is ruled by deific beings who can do stuff like melt buildings into puddles of acid, and all people can think of to do with their phones is take pictures of their pets and try to figure out how to get laid.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.

~ Brandon Sanderson

He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.

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How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.

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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

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Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don’t think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon . . .

~ Brandon Sanderson

Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.

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The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was another of Cody’s metaphors for it; I’d said the sensation felt like an unbalanced washing machine filled with a hundred epileptic chimpanzees. Pretty proud of that one.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It tasted like soil boiled in mud, wit a topping of dirt.

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I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee.

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I could take a shower every day in my own bathroom. I almost didn’t know what to do with such luxury. Other than, you know, not stink.

~ Brandon Sanderson

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

~ Brandon Sanderson

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor—your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.“Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!”There was a brief

~ Brandon Sanderson