Brandon Sanderson citations

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“Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.”

“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.”

“I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed."
"He is hope."
The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.”

“My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God through the use of your cleavage?”

“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”

“Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.”

“Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”

“I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.”

“If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.”

“Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.”

“Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.”

“The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.”

“Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket.
"Where does it come from?"
"From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.”

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

“Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.”

“This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.”

“Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense.

Rutabaga.”

“I strive for nothing if not consistency”

“I’m so storming pure I practically belch rainbows.”

“Words are where most change begins.”

“To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.”

“It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found."
"The truth?" Sazed said.
"No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.”

“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“a cheerful voice said in his mind.”

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

“As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.
This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was.”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“He ate my horse.”

“There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”