1,392 Quotes by Brandon Sanderson

You will be surprised how much more profitable an independent man is than a slave who thinks of nothing more than his next meal.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I’m glad it exists; I just don’t ever want to get stuck in it.

You make it sound like having the power to change the world is a bad thing.” “Bad? No. Abhorrent, depressing, ghastly. Having power is a terrible burden, the worst thing imaginable, except for every other alternative.

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that’s the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?

He was afraid of stepping up, of becoming everything he could be – not because the powers themselves frightened him. But because if he tried, then the failure was far, far worse. At.

Visit?” Yeden asked uncomfortably. “You’re going to visit the Lord Ruler? Are you insa... ” Yeden trailed off, then glanced at the rest of the room. “Right. I forgot.

I ain’t grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

You can’t put a price on a person’s life,” Kaladin.

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity – that was how to get stuff done.