Brandon Sanderson

Surprisingly, it was in my mouth

His mother would probably lament how little Kaladin care for religious observance. The way Kaladin figured it, the Almighty didn’t show much concern for him, so why care back?

You are a man with complicated beliefs, who does not accept everything you are told. You decide how you are defined. Don’t surrender that to them. They will gleefully take the chance to define you, if you allow it.

The purpose of youth is to experience variety while it is still interesting.

I watched you keep your word with perfection. This is a thing lost to most people—it is the only genuine beauty in the world.

People see in stories what they’re looking for.

I know full well how to have a good time.

These are the men…well, these are the men who actually change the world. And they terrify me. For men never see as far as they think they do.

You couldn’t live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know who you were, and then they started to expect things from you. It was one step from there to being gobbled up.

That man’s so incompetent he might as well be fighting for the other side.

Order was the very substance of rule. If things were organized, control could be asserted.

A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow’s soldiers.

They all stretched farther and farther until they collapsed. In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, 'This is good. This is what I wanted,' and gone home?

Oh, Adolin, Shallan thought. He’d arrived at a theory he liked, and now wouldn’t let it go. It was a common mistake warned of in her scientific books.