01c. 1975 ADMen are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
02c. 1975 ADNever go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
03c. 1975 ADa depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
04c. 1975 ADToo many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
05c. 1975 ADYou learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“Er…yes?”He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
06c. 1975 ADToo many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
07c. 1975 ADThat's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
08c. 1975 ADWhat kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
09c. 1975 ADThat's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
11c. 1975 ADIn a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
12c. 1975 ADI can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
13c. 1975 ADI trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
14c. 1975 ADShe would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was goneBrandon Sanderson / quote ↗
15c. 1975 ADHe actually did it, didn't he?" Marsh said, shaking his head in wonder. "That bastard. There are two things I'll never forgive him for. The first is for stealing my dream of overthrowing the Final Empire, then actually succeeding at it."Vin paused. "And the second?"Marsh turned spike-heads towards her. "Getting himself killed to do it.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
16c. 1975 ADBefore the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that imagination is one of the most important and defining aspects of human existence: our ability to imagine a world that is not.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
17c. 1975 ADRemember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
18c. 1975 ADEverything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
19c. 1975 ADIf men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
20c. 1975 ADMagic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
21c. 1975 ADWhen I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
22c. 1975 ADSomehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that was where she'd been raised. Not a woman of the court, though she appreciated the beauty and the grace of the balls. Someone else. Someone she liked.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
23c. 1975 ADYou want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’ll have to learn to deal with failure.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
24c. 1975 ADThere was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.Brandon Sanderson / quote ↗
