01c. 1975 ADOh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
02c. 1975 ADPersonally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
03c. 1975 ADThe right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
04c. 1975 ADBetter to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
05c. 1975 ADThe 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?Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
06c. 1975 ADYou must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
07c. 1975 ADWhat you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
08c. 1975 ADIt’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
09c. 1975 ADI have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
10c. 1975 ADGood 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1975 ADHolding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
12c. 1975 ADNot having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
13c. 1975 ADExpectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
14c. 1975 ADSo... wait. You're saying that on the other side―where I obviously believed in the other side―I realized that if I Returned I wouldn't believe in the other side, so I came back with the purpose of discovering faith in the other side, which I only lost because I Returned in the first place?"Llarimar paused. Then he smiled. "That last one breaks down a little bit in the face of logic, doesn't it?Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
15c. 1975 ADChana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
16c. 1975 ADSo,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—”“Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.”“I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
17c. 1975 ADDragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it’s pointed at someone else.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
18c. 1975 ADTo be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
19c. 1975 ADAuthors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
20c. 1975 ADEach time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
22c. 1975 ADHe found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
23c. 1975 ADSo many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
24c. 1975 ADI ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
