Brandon Sanderson: Trending quotes (page 8)

“I am the one thing you can never kill. I am Hope.”

“If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.”

“What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?”

“How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning.
“What?”
“Smile so much.”
“Oh, I’m just a happy person.”

“My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.”

“Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.”

“Vin isn't… like other women."
Tindwyl raised an eyebrow, her voice softening slightly.
"I think that the more women you come to know, Your Majesty, the more you'll find that statement applies to all of them.”

“I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?”

“I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.”

“I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.”

“That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.”

“Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.”

“Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.”

“A thing of nature.
For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.”

“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.”

“To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.”

“Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.”

“The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.”

“You've got passion to kill but you need to find passion to live.”