Brandon Sanderson citations

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“If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?"
"Walls can't think!"
"That doesn't stop them from caring.”

“I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!”

“Brightness Markal! What a disaster that hairstyle is; how brave of you to show it to the world”

“Kaladin followed [Shallan]. What else could he do? Explain to Adolin?”

“Other men are strong like bricks - firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You… you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm.”

“Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception”

“If there was a universal law regarding mankind, it was that they’d find a way to ferment anything, given time.”

“A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.”

“In the end, I stopped worrying about how strange you seemed. I realized that it didn't really matter if I understood you, because I trusted you.”

“New tastes are like new ideas, young man -- the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.”

“People see in stories what they're looking for, my young friend.”

“Hmmm. Someone has a high opinion of himself. Comes with being royalty, I suppose. Like funny hats and a fondness for beheadings.”

“The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle.”

“Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but… well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.”

“It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.”

“He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms--when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow--he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.”

“So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—
self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.”

“AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her.
Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.”

“I am a fish.”

“Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.”

“I ain’t drunk,” Wayne said, sniffling. “I’m investigatin’ alternative states of sobriety.”

“Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!”

“You hate change. I hate it too. But things can't stay the same- and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead”

“To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.”

“People were just too complex to reduce to simple personality traits.”

“It’s good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It will do you good to realize the price of fighting.”

“I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're like a potato!" I shouted after her. "In a minefield.”

“I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am”

“She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.”