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“My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

“There's always another secret.”

Brandon Sanderson

Kelsier, at various points during the novel
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006)

“People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.”

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

“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.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Lightsong the Bold
Warbreaker (2009)

“If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.”

Brandon Sanderson book Mistborn: The Final Empire

Variant: If you’re always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“I'm not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

“Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Well of Ascension

“To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."

She raised an eyebrow.

"Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

“A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Well of Ascension

“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Hero of Ages

“Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“… A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Well of Ascension

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Well of Ascension

“Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Steelheart

“Belief?"
"Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?"
Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?"
"The most important kind, I think.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire