Brandon Sanderson Quotes

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“Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious."
Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?”

“I kind of lost track of time…"
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.”

“How…” Dalinar said. “You fell into a chasm!”
“I fell face-first, sir,” Kaladin said, “and fortunately, I’m particularly hard-headed.”

“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”

“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.”

“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”

“Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.”

“Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.”

“Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.”

“In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.”

“If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.”
“The Codes?”
“No. The Way of Kings.”
“That storming book.”

“A manwhat he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what youyou should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.”

“The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?”

“We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.”

“For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.”

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”

“What do you know?”
“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”
“What do you want, then?”
“What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.”

“Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?"
"I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.”

“Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.”

“I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.”

“Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.”

“They looked so dangerous, like alligators. Really fast alligators wearing black. Ninja alligators. I decided not to use that one on Megan.”

“I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.”

“I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)”

“Storms, woman,” [Kaladin] said. “I don’t know what to make of you.”
“Preferably not a corpse.”
“I’m surprised someone hasn't already done that.”

“Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.”

“An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.”

“The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”

“Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.”

“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.”

“You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.”