Brandon Sanderson Quotes

But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you help them, the more likely they were to crack.

That crazy man happened to have blue eyes, which let him get away with all kinds of trouble. Perhaps Wit should have been bemused by the stock these people put in something as simple as eye color, but he had been many places and seen many methods of rule. This didn’t seem any more ridiculous than most others.

You make it sound like having the power to change the world is a bad thing.

It was a frantic, insane brawl for power.

Too few people listened to anything other than their own thoughts.

A layer of skin, a layer of fat, a layer of muscle, a layer of bone. That was what men were.

Some problems could not be fixed with a lie.

I have spent too much of my time worrying about what people think, Navani. When I thought my time had arrived, I realized that all my worrying had been wasted. In the end, I was pleased with how I had lived my life.

Men often place pride before reason.

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.

The Eleventh Metal? Of course it is - I showed it to you remember?

I know you do not mean this. Context allows me to infer what you truly mean. In a way, the very phrase is a lie.

Not so crude then, if it almost killed him.

They were too theatrical—and there were too many of them—for all to be truly deranged. This was a fad. A way of dealing with unexpected events and giving some shape to lives that had been turned upside down.
That didn’t mean they weren’t dangerous. A group of people all trying to impress one another was always more dangerous than the lone psychopath.

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.