01c. 1975 ADWhat 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.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
02c. 1975 ADIt was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
03c. 1975 ADThere was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
04c. 1975 ADEmergency? Knighthawk sent. I’m just bored.I blinked, holding my phone and rereading that text.Bored? I sent. You’re literally spying on the entire world, Knighthawk. You can read anyone’s mail, listen to anyone’s phone calls.First, it’s not the whole world, he wrote. Only large chunks of North and Central America. Second, do you have any idea how mind-numbingly DULL most people are?I started a reply, but a flurry of messages came at me, interrupting what I was going to say.Oh! Knighthawk wrote. Look at this pretty flower!Hey. I want to know if you like me, but I can’t say that, so here’s an awkward flirtation instead.Where are you?I’m here.Where?Here.There?No, here.Oh.Look at my kid.Look at my dog.Look at me.Look at me holding my kid and dog.Hey, everyone. I took a huge koala this morning.Barf. The world is ruled by deific beings who can do stuff like melt buildings into puddles of acid, and all people can think of to do with their phones is take pictures of their pets and try to figure out how to get laid.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
05c. 1975 ADSeen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
06c. 1975 ADwe're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
07c. 1975 ADHe was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
08c. 1975 ADLightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours," Lifesong said. "My breath become yours.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
09c. 1975 ADHow quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
10c. 1975 ADEntropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
11c. 1975 ADMost people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don’t think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon . . .Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
12c. 1975 ADWell, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
13c. 1975 ADIn the end, after kingdoms and armies had fallen, the religions were still fighting, weren't they?Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
14c. 1975 ADI’m going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I’ll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in a hurricane!""Wow," I said, reaching an intersection and taking cover by an old mailbox."What?" Tia asked."That was a really good metaphor.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
15c. 1975 ADThe buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was another of Cody’s metaphors for it; I’d said the sensation felt like an unbalanced washing machine filled with a hundred epileptic chimpanzees. Pretty proud of that one.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
16c. 1975 ADI set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It tasted like soil boiled in mud, wit a topping of dirt.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
17c. 1975 ADI grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
18c. 1975 ADI could take a shower every day in my own bathroom. I almost didn’t know what to do with such luxury. Other than, you know, not stink.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
20c. 1975 ADHer aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
21c. 1975 ADI ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor—your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.“Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!”There was a briefBrandon Sanderson / quote ↗
23c. 1975 ADAre you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.”He grunted. “Be careful, girl. You wouldn’t want to accidentally insult a man.”“The last thing I’d want to do is accidentally insult you, Vathah,” Shallan said. “To think that Icouldn’t manage it on purpose if I wanted!Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
24c. 1975 ADYour insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion.""Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?"Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here.""How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious."Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing."“How's that a duel?”"He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about."Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
