As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire
A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
"How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?"
"With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest..."
"With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest..."
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Hero of Ages
If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Hero of Ages
"That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin," he said with a wink. "Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again."
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire
Books have great value, actions have greater value.
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension
Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire
"The question," she replied, "is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path."
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone.
But that does not mean that I walked alone.
But that does not mean that I walked alone.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
"I will take responsibility for what I have done," Dalinar whispered. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man."
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
As long as you keep trying, there's a chance. When you give up? That's when the dream dies.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you.
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire
To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
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?
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
Words are where most change begins.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
"I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome."
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
One can believe in a story without believing it happened.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
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.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
"Ah, the outdoors," Shallan said. "I visited that mythical place once."
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don't know.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
"The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"
"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."
"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
Loving someone always requires you to not love others.
It's not a bad thing to be loved.
Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around.
By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.