Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I…don't feel like I've won.…

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

But you always find people telling stories about supposedly better days. You watch. A man joins a new team of soldiers, and the first thing he’ll do is talk about how wonderful his old team was. We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.

Where's your sense of adventure?

My circumstances are unusual, Brightness.

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

I do think that you ignored, or at least minimized, one vital part of the discussion.

I thought you were a believer.

Then you'll forgive an old man's curiosity?

What you said earlier is right; men are unreliable in many things. But if there’s one thing you can count on, it’s their greed.

Child, when they were but babes, I had already lived dozens of lifetimes. 'Old' is a word you use for worn shoes. I'm something else entirely.

It wasn’t a lie. It was a different truth.

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

That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again

Someone has to care