Brandon Sanderson Quotes

“It's a mystery," Vin said, narrowing her eyes and smiling. "We Mistborn are incredibly mysterious."
Elend paused." Um...I'm Mistborn too, Vin. That doesn't make any sense."
"We Mistborn need not make sense," Vin said." It's beneath us. Come on-the sun's already down. We need to get moving.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Here is your flaw, Shaitan, Lord of the Dark, Lord of Envy, Lord of Nothing, here is why you fail. It was not about me. It’s never been about me.”
It was about a woman, torn and beaten down, cast from her throne and made a puppet. A woman who had crawled when she had to. That woman still fought.
It was about a man that love repeatedly forsook. A man who found relevance in a world that others would have let pass them by. A man who remembered stories and who took fool boys under his wing when the smarter move would have been to keep on walking. That man still fought.
It was about a woman with a secret, a hope for the future. A woman who had hunted the truth before others could. A woman who had given her live, then had it returned. That woman still fought.
It was about a man whose family was taken from him, but who stood tall in his sorrow and protected those he could.
It was about a woman who refused to believe that she could not help, could not heal those who had been harmed.
It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.
It was about a woman who would not bend her back while she was beaten, and who shown with a light for all who watched, including Rand.
It was about them all.
~Rand al Thor”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

“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

“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Suddenly, Vin grew pale. Elend paused, glancing at her, sensing that something was wrong. Not with what he'd said, something else. What is it? Assassins? Mist spirits? Koloss?


"I just realized something," Vin said, looking at him with those intense eyes of hers. "I can't go to a ball—I didn't bring a gown!”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?"
-Brandon Sanderson
(Elantris)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“You're a sword not a palm tree”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Kaladin stared outward at the blue sky. “I have to know,” he whispered.
“Know?”
“You asked why I protect Dalinar. I have to know if he really is what he seems, Syl. I have to know if one of them lives up to his reputation. That will tell me-“
“Tell you? Tell you what?”
“If honor is dead, Kaladin whispered.
“He is,” Syl said. “But he lives on in men. And in me.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon sanderson(Elantris)”
― Brandon sanderson

“Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."
-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.
Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Sorry, Ulric," I whispered. "I've learned to fear someone else more than I do you."
He frowned. "Who?"
"The man... I used to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

“Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination. I will protect those who cannot protect themselves. I will protect even those I hate so long as it is right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Stormlight Archive, Books 1-4: The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer, Rhythm of War

“I exist. I do what is needed. Eventually, I will no longer exist. That is enough.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“I’m very fond of librarians. I go to many librarian conferences, and I’ve found that librarians tend to be a group that has far more humor to them than most people assume.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“El amor no consistía en tener razón o no, sino en levantarse y ayudar cuando tu compañero tenía la espalda encorvada.”
― Brandon Sanderson , Juramentada

“-No tengo mucho tiempo para historias.
-Parece que cada vez hay menos, hoy en día. Eso hace que me pregunte qué hay tan atractivo en el mundo real que los tiene tan obsesionados. No es un lugar muy agradable hoy en día.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“A veces, las respuestas que necesitamos no se corresponden con las preguntas que hacemos. Y a veces, el cobarde deja en evidencia a personas más sabias.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Escuadrón [Skyward]

“Y luego, estás tú. Te saltas mi autoridad. Haces caso a tus sentimientos. ¡Hablas como una valquiria salida de una tirdosa balada! Debería odiarte. Y aun así... Y aun así, cuando vuelas, eres asombrosa. Eres decidida, hábil, apasionada. Eres un fuego, Peonza. Cuando todos los demás están en calma, tú eres una hoguera ardiente. Hermosa, como una hoja recién forjada.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Escuadrón [Skyward]

“La gente necesita historias, niña. Nos traen esperanza, y la esperanza es real. Siendo ese el caso, ¿qué más da si las personas que aparecen en ellas vivieron de verdad?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Escuadrón [Skyward]

“El orgullo es una virtud en aquellos que la consideran como tal.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Escuadrón [Skyward]

“Un poco de miedo, un fragmento de la historia... esas cosas no significan nada Lo que importa es lo que hacemos.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Escuadrón [Skyward]

“Un poco de miedo, un fragmento de la historia... esas cosas no significan nada. Lo que importa es lo que hacemos.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Escuadrón [Skyward]

“I love memories. They are our ballads, our personal foundation myths. But I just acknowledge that memory can be cruel if left unchallenged.

Memory is often our only connection to who we used to be. Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves. More potently, our minds are a hungry audience, craving only the peaks and valleys of experience. The bland erodes, leaving behind the distinctive bits to be remembered again and again.

Painful or passionate, surreal or sublime, we cherish those little rocks of peak experience, polishing them with the ever-smoothing touch of recycled proxy living. In so doing - like pagans praying to a sculpted mud figure - we make our memories the gods which judge our current lives.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“I've found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll just end up miserable.
Breeze, Hero of Ages”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Indeed, the path to life without empathy is a long and painful one, full of bartered humanity sold a steep discount.

-Hoid”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“—La gente con pasión es gente que destruye… pues la pasión de un hombre no se cumple hasta que demuestra cuánto está dispuesto a sacrificar por ella.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“—Un hombre es aquello por lo que siente pasión. He descubierto que si renuncias a lo que más quieres por lo que piensas que deberías querer más, acabarás sintiéndote desgraciado.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages