Brandon Sanderson citations

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“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.”