Brandon Sanderson Quotes page 5

“All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.”

Source: The Final Empire

“I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”
“Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.”

Source: The Way of Kings

“I really am impressed that you have been shot so often. Really.”
“Getting hit’s not really that impressive,” Wayne noted. “It don’t take much skill to get shot. It’sthe bullets that’s tough.”

Source: The Alloy of Law

“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”

Source: The Alloy of Law

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)”

Source: Warbreaker

Brandon Sanderson book Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

“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.”

Source: Firefight

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

Source: The Way of Kings

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

Source: The Alloy of Law

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

Source: Firefight

“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.”

Source: The Rithmatist

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

Source: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens

“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.”

Variant: Elend thought.
Source: The Hero of Ages

“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.”

Source: Steelheart

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

Source: The Well of Ascension

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

Source: The Hero of Ages

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

Source: Words of Radiance

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

Source: The Final Empire

“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.”

Source: Words of Radiance

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

Source: The Way of Kings

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

Lightsong the Bold
Source: Warbreaker (2009)

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

Source: Warbreaker

“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.”

Source: Shadows of Self

“That’s an answer in the same way that ketchup can be hair gel.”

Source: The Bands of Mourning

“Damn, I miss the internet. You could always find people doing stupid stuff on the internet.”

Source: Firefight

“Books have great value, actions have greater value.”

Source: Calamity

“Philosophy? What good is that?” Isn’t it the art of saying nothing with as many words as possible?”

Source: The Well of Ascension

“It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.”

Source: The Way of Kings

“Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable. Kolo?"
-Brandon Sanderson
(Elantris)”

Source: The Well of Ascension

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

“Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

“That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don’t put you in mortal peril every once in a while?”

“Humans don’t make sense.”
“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.”

Source: The Rithmatist

“ah, the outdoors," Shallan said. "I visited that mythical place once. It was so very long ago, I've nearly forgotten it. Tell me, does the sun still shine, or is that just my dreamy recollection'

'Surely your studies aren't that bad.”

Source: Words of Radiance

“If you had to shoot a man, society had already failed.”

Source: The Way of Kings

“Oh, I wouldn’t say that. Work, my dear Blushweaver, is like fertilizer.”
“It smells?”
He smiled. “No, I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I’m glad it exists; I just don’t ever want to get stuck in it.”

Source: The Bands of Mourning

“Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.”

Source: Warbreaker

Source: Words of Radiance

“I am a stick.”

“As picky as a woman with her shoes,” Abraham grumbled.
“Hey,” I said. “That’s insulting.” I knew plenty of women who were pickier with their guns than they were with their shoes.”

“I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel.
I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.”

Source: Firefight

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

“A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.”

“Tukks’s voice seemed to whisper.”

Source: Words of Radiance

“You know, Ham," Breeze noted. "The only funny thing about your jokes is how often they lack any humor whatsoever.”

Source: The Way of Kings

“Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.”

Source: The Well of Ascension

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“If the afterlife really is a big war,” Kaladin said, “then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.”

“Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.”

Source: Words of Radiance

“Plan?” Marasi asked.
“Not dyin’.”
“Anything more detailed than that?”
“Not dyin’ … today?”

Source: The Alloy of Law