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You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know."
"Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want."
"Anything?"
"Anything that doesn't require doing anything."
"That's nothing, then."
"Is it?"
"Yes."
"Well, that's something.


Brandon Sanderson

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"...
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BRANDON SANDERSON The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over?...
BRANDON SANDERSON She slumped toward the ground, but I grabbed her and heaved her onto my shoulder, then ran down the ...
BRANDON SANDERSON By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should ...
BRANDON SANDERSON You said their prayer – is this the religion you believe in, then?"
„I believe in them all...
BRANDON SANDERSON Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand ...
BRANDON SANDERSON An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.
BRANDON SANDERSON I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back. He stumbled beneath th...
BRANDON SANDERSON Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.”
He ...
BRANDON SANDERSON How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning.
“What?”
“Smile so much.”
“Oh...
BRANDON SANDERSON How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?"
"With a knife in the chest. Or...
BRANDON SANDERSON Frailty, thy name is Alcatraz
BRANDON SANDERSON Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.
BRANDON SANDERSON Before we get to this, let me explain something about myself. I’ve been many things in my life. St...
BRANDON SANDERSON There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Watch out for púcas as you travel, lad,” Cody said, shaking my hand. “Could be imitating anythi...
BRANDON SANDERSON Somehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that w...
BRANDON SANDERSON I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.”
“To a boy with aspirations like that, I ...
BRANDON SANDERSON She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought...
BRANDON SANDERSON I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make ...
BRANDON SANDERSON What do you know?”
“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth som...
BRANDON SANDERSON I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything ab...
BRANDON SANDERSON I can see what you’re up to.”
“Five foot six inches,” Shallan said. “I suspect that...
BRANDON SANDERSON Words are where most change begins.
BRANDON SANDERSON What else will we do?" I asked, turning to leave. "This is the only plan we have."
"This isn't ...
BRANDON SANDERSON Discomforting, like finding a three-week-old sandwich behind your bed, when you swore you’d finish...
BRANDON SANDERSON Enforcement had done its best to kill me on several occasions. You didn’t just get over something ...
BRANDON SANDERSON I sense a very large but.”
“Funny, because right in front of me, I see a—”
...
BRANDON SANDERSON Reckoner Super Plan for Killing Regalia...

Step One: find Regalia, then totally explod...
BRANDON SANDERSON You can’t immerse yourself in something,” Prof said softly, “without coming to respect it.
BRANDON SANDERSON Or, you know, you could interview the perfectly willing Epic walking beside you.”
I coughed i...
BRANDON SANDERSON We want what we can’t have, even when we have no right to demand it.
BRANDON SANDERSON You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.
BRANDON SANDERSON Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
BRANDON SANDERSON Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for...
BRANDON SANDERSON I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited ...
BRANDON SANDERSON I've seen Steelheart bleed.
And I will see him bleed again.
BRANDON SANDERSON I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.
BRANDON SANDERSON As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.
This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d fl...
BRANDON SANDERSON Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler."
Kelsier: Ah, but b...
BRANDON SANDERSON Elend smiled. "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mix...
BRANDON SANDERSON You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Bree...
BRANDON SANDERSON You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny.
BRANDON SANDERSON Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his bo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Janala is a fool, just bright enough to be proud of the wits she has, but stupid enough to be unawar...
BRANDON SANDERSON Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They'r...
BRANDON SANDERSON You've never heard of bagpipes?" Cody asked, sounding aghast. "They're as Scottish as kilts a...
BRANDON SANDERSON As long as you keep trying, there's a chance. When you give up? That's when the dream dies.
BRANDON SANDERSON People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have...
BRANDON SANDERSON I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man
BRANDON SANDERSON He quivered on the ground his face pressed to the stone and didn’t rise.
“Did you… did y...
BRANDON SANDERSON Sequels always have to be bigger.
BRANDON SANDERSON Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.
BRANDON SANDERSON NO MATING
BRANDON SANDERSON What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?"
"Nothing. It was jus...
BRANDON SANDERSON My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorabilit...
BRANDON SANDERSON This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON