Brandon Sanderson: Trending quotes

“Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.”

Kelsier, Chapter 13
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006)

“Women? Women are like… thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.”

Source: The Hero of Ages

“I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed."
"He is hope."
The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.”

Source: The Final Empire

“My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God through the use of your cleavage?”

Source: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”

“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.”

Source: The Way of Kings

“Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”

Source: The Way of Kings

“I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.”

Source: Steelheart

“If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.”

Source: Words of Radiance

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

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

“Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.”

Source: Firstborn

“The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.”

Source: Words of Radiance

“Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket.
"Where does it come from?"
"From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.”

Source: The Way of Kings

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

Source: The Way of Kings

“Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.”

Source: Words of Radiance

“This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.”

Source: The Final Empire

“Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense.

Rutabaga.”

Source: The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“I strive for nothing if not consistency”

“I’m so storming pure I practically belch rainbows.”

Source: The Final Empire