The best Quotes from Tress of the Emerald Sea

How many other planets have you visited? Perhaps they all sail in oceans of pollen and your home is the freakish one.

Tress considered herself to be categorically boring. She liked her tea lukewarm, she went to bed on time, she loved her parents, occasionally squabbled with her little brother, and didn't litter. She was fair at needlepoint, and had a talent for baking. But had no other noteworthy skills. She didn't train at fencing in secret, she couldn't talk to animals, she had no hidden royalty or deities in her lineage. Though her great-grandmother Glorf had once reportedly waved at the king.

Brandon Sanderson

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Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer

Sad Quotes

"I kind of lost track of time..."
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved."

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

Books

The book spoke of a king carrying the burdens of his people. It said that those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings

Kings

What honor can we find on a battlefield while our people starve?

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings

War

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance

Prejudice

I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer

"Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway."

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

Good & Evil

Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

Failures & Mistakes

"I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point."

Brandon Sanderson in Warbreaker

Discussions

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

Brandon Sanderson in Warbreaker

Foolishness

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time... the losses are what define a man's faith.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

Losing & Defeat

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Hero of Ages

Self-Confidence

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire

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

Brandon Sanderson in Warbreaker

Women Wine Hangover & Crapulence

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

Thinking Intelligence

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire

Hope

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

Women's Rights

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

Expectations

"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..."

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

Faith

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

Wanderlust

"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.

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

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

Books have great value, actions have greater value.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

Taking action

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire

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

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire

Solitude & Loneliness

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

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FBI

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

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Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

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Murder

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