Brandon Sanderson Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

  Tyrants, Trying, Matter

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.561, Macmillan

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• Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.

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  Believe, Long, Waiting

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• I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Nice, Land, Insanity

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.10, Macmillan

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• When men fought, they connected. You became brothers as you traded blows.

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  Brother, Men, Blow

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2009). “The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time”, p.214, Macmillan

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• Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

  Brandon Sanderson

  Honor, Aids

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.307, Macmillan

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• The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

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  Liars, Telling The Truth

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.270, Macmillan

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• Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Kindness, Bitterness

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.98, Macmillan

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• There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

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  Son, Two, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.155, Macmillan

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• Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Writing, Next

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• Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.

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  Fashion, War, Book

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.478, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Men, Giving, Pockets

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.215, Macmillan

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• Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, Facts

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Hero of Ages: Mistborn Book Three”, p.486, Hachette UK

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• Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

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  Book, Language, Life Is

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.236, Macmillan

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• I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

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  Crush, Storm, Mountain

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.630, Macmillan

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• I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

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  Writing, Two, My Family

  "JordanCon: Interview with Brandon Sanderson". Interview with Richard Fife, www.tor.com. June 7, 2010.

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• There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Wheels, Wheel Of Time

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.930, Macmillan

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• Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

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  Lying, Light, Shadow

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance”, p.103, Macmillan

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• The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.

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  Way, Mysterious, Wayne

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.223, Macmillan

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• I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

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  Father, Neglect, Should

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.15, Macmillan

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• They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaod—apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn't taste too good. Kolo? In fact, it's so violently bitter that no one can keep it down." "It's nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option," Raoden said dryly

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  Nice, Book, Men

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• Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

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  Men, Wish, Age

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance”, p.219, Macmillan

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• Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

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  Optimistic, Army, Skills

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.278, Macmillan

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• Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

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  Believe, Sound, World

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.2028, Macmillan

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• I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

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  Thinking, Want, Stuck

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.255, Macmillan

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• I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

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  Gun, Government, Trying

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.37, Macmillan

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