Brandon Sanderson: Likeness

Brandon Sanderson is American fantasy writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”

Source: Warbreaker

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

Source: The Way of Kings

“The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Hero of Ages

“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.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

“And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

“… knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Rithmatist

“I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“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.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Final Empire

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

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Steelheart

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

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Steelheart

“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.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Well of Ascension

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

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Rithmatist

“It's like a banana farm for guns!”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Steelheart

“You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: The Hero of Ages

“If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.”

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Steelheart

“He was right. I was letting myself get distracted, like a rabbit doing math problems instead of looking for foxes.”

Brandon Sanderson

Source: Steelheart

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

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians