“That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty. To make everything better.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow’s soldiers.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Wasing the where of needing,” she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“ What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Kelsier exhaled in exasperation. “Elend Venture? You risked your life—risked the plan, and our lives—for that fool of a boy?” Vin looked… — 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 the wrong places.” “I suppose that you’re going to tell me where you think I should look.” “You’ll find God in the same place you’re going to find salvation from this mess,” Wit said. “Inside the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share
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
