Brandon Sanderson Quotes

You have to expect a measure of subterfuge in any political engagement.

Let the Vorin believe as they wish—the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.

They were not demons, they were just men who had too much power and not enough sense.

Who's put these ideas in your head? Why would you want to learn to hit other boys with a stick?

Morality is not a thing you can simply doff to put on the helm of battle, then put back on when you’re done with the slaughter.

This is the tiresome part of the feast, where the conversation grows louder but no smarter, and the company drunken.

Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.

He couldn’t give in to assuming he was cursed, or had bad luck, or whatever it was. Superstition never got a man anywhere. But he had to admit, the pattern was disturbing. If he acted as he always had before, how could he expect different results? He had to try something new. Change, somehow. This was going to take more thought.

Expensive, yes. But by definition, therefore, not priceless.

Pattern hummed. “Truth is individual.”
“What? No it’s not. Truth is…it’s Truth. Reality.”

She let the world consume her. The familiar sound of pencil on paper, the focus of creation. Beauty was out there, all around. To create art was not to capture it, but to participate in it.

Kabsal sighed. “Brightness Jasnah, I realize that you are not fond of me. But I am working very hard to be pleasant. Could you at least pretend to do likewise?”

It was a frantic, insane brawl for power.

To be honest, 'arrogant' doesn't feel like quite the right word. It's not specific enough.

You know how he was. That force of will, that air of natural entitlement. It always seemed to surprise him when someone denied him or when the world itself didn’t do as he wished. He didn’t force me to defer—it was simply how life was.