“It is beautiful because it could have been. It should have been.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“As long as you keep trying, there's a chance. When you give up? That's when the dream dies.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Vin was coming to realize that her old goal in life - simply staying alive - was uninspired. There was so much… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t been fighting for vengeance, and hadn’t been fighting for redemption. I hadn’t been fighting because of my father’s death. I… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“None of it mattered. He would just keep living. They'd taken his freedom, his family, his friends, and— most dear of all— his dreams.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The question is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.” “To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“She did believe in Austre. She loved the teachings of the five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“You look so ugly, it seems that someone tried—and failed—to get the warts off your face through aggressive application of sandpaper. You… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Why, Elend! That’s almost romantic—in a twisted ‘I’m going to make my wife want to kill me’ sort of way.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“And...how much are we getting paid for achieving the impossible?” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Elend smiled. "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“That is always how it is, though, isn't it?” Shuden asked. “Those who can least afford extravagance seem to be the ones most determined… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“He says he’s letting the Stormfather judge you,” Moash added. “Jezerezeh, king of Heralds. He says that if you deserve to live, you will….”… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The stories say the Nightwatcher might be capable of that. . . . Powerful spren. Vast spren.’ ‘Is he calling me vast?’ Syl said,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
