Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Like a highstorm, regular in their coming, yet always unexpected.”

— Brandon Sanderson

252. “So much evil, Nightblood said, like a woman tisking as she cleaned cobwebs from her ceiling.”

— Brandon Sanderson

253. “But it’s not a matter of morality, is it? It’s a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you’d accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job.”

— Brandon Sanderson

254. “So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don’t read “fantasy,” because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.”

— Brandon Sanderson

255. “So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.”

— Brandon Sanderson

256. “A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood.”

— Brandon Sanderson

257. “What do you think makes a man a good king, Tindwyl of Terris?” “Trust,” Tindwyl said, looking him in the eyes. “A good king is one who is trusted by his people – and one who deserves that trust.”

— Brandon Sanderson

258. “Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.”

— Brandon Sanderson

259. “That’s where we belong, not in those caverns. The kids who make fun of you, they’re trapped on this rock. Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.”

— Brandon Sanderson

260. “You could even scan to the end and read the last page. Know that by doing so, however, you would violate every holy and honorable story-telling principle known to man, thereby throwing the universe into chaos and causing grief to untold millions.”

— Brandon Sanderson

261. “I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.”

— Brandon Sanderson

262. “Conversations with some people remind me of a broken sword. Sharp as hell, but lacking a point.”

— Brandon Sanderson

263. “I don’t talk to myself because I’m crazy.” “No?” “I do it because I’m awesome.”

— Brandon Sanderson

264. “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.”

— Brandon Sanderson

265. “Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.”

— Brandon Sanderson

266. “Put two men together, and they will find something to argue about. Gather them into groups, and one group will find reason to oppress or attack another.”

— Brandon Sanderson

267. “It’s interesting that the woman who wrote that treatise – the one you all practically worship in Alethkar –decided that all of the feminine tasks involve sitting around having fun while all the masculine ones involve finding someone to stick a spear in you. Telling, eh?”

— Brandon Sanderson

268. “Shallan had found that no matter how bad things got, someone would be making tea.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

270. “You should never debate an idiot, Shallan. No more than you’d use your best sword to spread butter.”

— Brandon Sanderson

271. “Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he’s at his best, there’s a smirk underneath.”

— Brandon Sanderson

272. “Oh, hell,” Kelsier said. “There’s actually a God?” “Yes.” Kelsier decked him.”

— Brandon Sanderson

273. “The sun peeked over the horizon like the head of a giant radioactive manatee.”

— Brandon Sanderson

274. “Unapplied knowledge benefited no one.”

— Brandon Sanderson

275. “Everyone is either happy or dead.”

— Brandon Sanderson

276. “A hero does not choose her trials.”

— Brandon Sanderson

277. “I was grown-up. I’d packed my own backpack and had left Bloodletter, my stuffed bear, at home. Stuffed bears were for babies, even if you’d fashioned your own mock power armor for yours out of string and broken ceramics.”

— Brandon Sanderson

278. “Empathy is an emotional loss leader. It pays for itself eventually.”

— Brandon Sanderson

279. “Ain’t no fellow who regretted giving it one extra shake, but you can bet every guy has regretted giving one too few.”

— Brandon Sanderson

280. “That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.”

— Brandon Sanderson

281. “All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that’s why you so often want to kill each other.”

— Brandon Sanderson

282. “Journey before destination, you bastard.”

— Brandon Sanderson

283. “It’s not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.”

— Brandon Sanderson

284. “Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That’s who I am.”

— Brandon Sanderson

285. “Despair, hate, loss, frustration, horror. How could any man live this way? To be a surgeon, to live knowing that you would be too weak to save some? When other men failed, a field of crops got worms in them. When a surgeon failed, someone died.”

— Brandon Sanderson

286. “When men fought, they connected. You became brothers as you traded blows.”

— Brandon Sanderson

287. “Sometimes stupid is right,” Megan said, then paused. “Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.”

— Brandon Sanderson

288. “You are whatever you want to be, Wayne. You’re the wind. You’re the stars. You are all endless things.”

— Brandon Sanderson

289. “That girl never did have the decency to be wrong an appropriate amount of the time.”

— Brandon Sanderson

290. “Nothing else dangerous we could find. Other than Wayne’s body odor.” “That’s the smell of incredibleness,” Wayne called from inside.”

— Brandon Sanderson

291. “Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?”

— Brandon Sanderson

292. “Most Allomancers didn’t use whiskey in their metal vials. Most Allomancers were missing out on a perfect opportunity.”

— Brandon Sanderson

293. “One can have a wit, but not a witless.”

— Brandon Sanderson

294. “Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don’t know.”

— Brandon Sanderson

295. “Ain’t nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho,” Lopen said. “Some of my relatives are women.”

— Brandon Sanderson

296. “I ain’t drunk,” Wayne said, sniffling. “I’m investigatin’ alternative states of sobriety.”

— Brandon Sanderson

297. “You can’t be in Bridge Four. We’re bodyguards for your own family. What are you going to do? Guard yourself?”

— Brandon Sanderson

298. “There’s no profit in peace.”

— Brandon Sanderson

299. “All warfare is based on deception, Sun Tzu had said. When we are able to attack, we must seem unable. When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

— Brandon Sanderson

300. “Well, when the fear of death seizes you – when the dark thoughts come – you stare the darkness right back, and you tell it, ‘I will not listen to you, for I am infinite Batmans.”

— Brandon Sanderson