Brandon Sanderson: Trending quotes (page 12)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.”

“Sazed thought.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”