“The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It’s in how they make use of what life has… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“That's why we get annoyed by you Idrians. So high, so certain that what you do is right. If your god asked… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became… — 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
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I can’t understand that, he wrote. You’re wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Live, David," he said softly. "Live your life." "I'm doing that," I grumbled. "No. You are letting Steelheart live your life for… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Fleet kept running,” Kaladin growled, getting back under Elhokar’s arm. “What?” “He couldn't win, but he kept running. And when the storm… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then… — 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
My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God through the use of your cleavage? — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“You still think I’m too optimistic, don’t you?” Shallan said. “It’s not your fault,” Kaladin said. “I’d rather be like you. I’d… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Doesn't matter how good your bullets are if you don't aim carefully.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.” — 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
“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
