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- You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
- It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
- My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to…
- By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep.…
- All right," Spook said. He reached to the ground, scooping up a pile of ash. "Let's just rub this into your clothing and on your…
- I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know…
- Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just…
- ...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
- anyone know where Kell is?" "Sleeping," Vin said. "He came in late last night, and hasn't gotten up yet." Ham grunted, taking a bite of…
- Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
- Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we've messed…
- If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.
- I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at…
- The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up…
- Raoden turned to regard the large Dula. "What does it matter? It's not like we have anything pressing to do. It's actually quite pleasant up…
- Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.
- I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose…
- Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders…
- You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know." Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how…
- Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s…
- Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious…
- Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes,…
- Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
- I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We…
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