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“You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.”

Brandon Sanderson book Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Firefight

“Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

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

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Alloy of Law

“You can’t immerse yourself in something,” Prof said softly, “without coming to respect it.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Firefight

“we're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just… well, better at it than most.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Rithmatist

“Oh, don’t worry. If you didn’t say some stupid things every once in a while, you certainly wouldn’t fit in with this group.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

“Sazed thought.”

Brandon Sanderson

Variant: Elend thought.
Source: The Hero of Ages

“But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If he weren’t blind, that is. Dumb metaphor, I thought. I’ll have to work on that one. I have trouble with metaphors.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Steelheart

“There are two ways to stay safe, Reen's voice whispered to her. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Well of Ascension

“That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Hero of Ages

“To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

“I’m sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“You learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”
“Er…yes?”
He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“You see the great thing about madness is that it's all in your head.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Lightsong the Bold
Source: Warbreaker (2009)

“War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are
usually nice hors d’oeuvres.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“The law is not something holy, son. It’s just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be in charge.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Shadows of Self

“The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit—but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Bands of Mourning