I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his… — 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