Kelsier Quotes

“There's always another secret.' -Kelsier”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Kelsier exhaled in exasperation. “Elend Venture? You risked your life—risked the plan, and our lives—for that fool of a boy?”

Vin looked up, glaring at him. “Yes.”

“What is wrong with you, girl?” Kelsier asked. “Elend Venture isn’t worth this.”

She stood angrily, Sazed backing away, the cloak falling the floor. “He’s a good man!”

“He’s a nobleman!”

“So are you!” Vin snapped. She waved a frustrated arm toward the kitchen and the crew. “What do you think this is, Kelsier? The life of a skaa? What do any of you know about skaa? Aristocratic suits, stalking your enemies in the night, full meals and nightcaps around the table with your friends? That’s not the life of a skaa!”

She took a step forward, glaring at Kelsier. He blinked in surprise at the outburst.

“What do you know about them, Kelsier?” she asked. “When’s the last time you slept in an alley, shivering in the cold rain, listening to the beggar next to you cough with a sickness you knew would kill him? When’s the last time you had to lay awake at night, terrified that one of the men in your crew would try to rape you? Have you ever knelt, starving, wishing you had the courage to knife the crewmember beside you just so you could take his crust of bread? Have you ever cowered before your brother as he beat you, all the time feeling thankful because at least you had someone who paid attention to you?”

She fell silent, puffing slightly, the crewmembers staring at her.

“Don’t talk to me about noblemen,” Vin said. “And don’t say things about people you don’t know. You’re no skaa— you’re just noblemen without titles.”

She turned, stalking from the room. Kelsier watched her go, shocked, hearing her footsteps on the stairs. He stood, dumbfounded, feeling a surprising flush of ashamed guilt.

And, for once, found himself without anything to say.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“I am the one thing you can never kill. I am Hope.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning.
“What?”
“Smile so much.”
“Oh, I’m just a happy person.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.'
Kelsier leaned forward again. 'But, you weren't born an aristocrat. You're not noble, Vin. You don't have to play by their rules--and that makes you even more powerful.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be.

"Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a laugh. "that wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do!

Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. "By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, kell! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years"

"We'll fix that" Kelsier promised.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“You blessed lunatic … you blessed genius!"

Kelsier smiled wryly. “I appreciate both compliments.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don’t make me come over there and slap you around again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Life as a human being is about posturing and influence.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope - Kelsier”
― Brandon Sanderson

“La fe… Recordó una voz del pasado. Su propia voz, hablándole a Vin aquel terrible día tras la muerte de Kelsier. La fe no es solo para los bellos momentos y los días felices. ¿Qué es creer, qué es la fe si no persistes en ella después del fracaso?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Sometimes it is the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“He was a man.Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“He was running through mists again. Walls, people, buildings faded. Nothing but dark, swirling mists. But the mists had never been his enemy.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Secret History

“—Te traigo un mensaje de un amigo nuestro —dijo fríamente—. Quería que supieras que no ha muerto. No se le puede matar. »Es la esperanza.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire (2 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Kelsier sat, trying to read her, trying to understand her. Would she betray them to the Final Empire if she left? He thought not. She wasn't a bad person.
She simply believed that everybody else was.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Don't use his name as an oath, Vin. Even blasphemy honors him—when you curse by that creature's name, you acknowledge him as your god.”
― Brandon Sanderson S