1,392 Quotes by Brandon Sanderson

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

It was a nice dream, wasn't it, Syl?" he asked. "That we could escape? Find peace at long last?""Such a wonderful dream," she whispered.

This is life, and I will not lie to you saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that's a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: you will be warm again.

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

Eternity ended ten years ago.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.”“To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance.” Abraham sounded amused. “You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.