You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“It was the teaching itself that I loved. At least, I loved it back when I thought it would be enough to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The study's small ventilation window bumped open, and Vin squeezed through, pulling in a puff of mist behind her. She closed the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we… — 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
“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."… — 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
