Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “It’s not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.”

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

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

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

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255. “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.”

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256. “Journey before destination, you bastard.”

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

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

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

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260. “The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.”

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

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262. “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.”

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263. “Nothing is eternal, not even time itself.”

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264. “The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar. Trembling, bleeding, agonized, Dalinar forced air into his lungs and spoke a single ragged sentence. “You cannot have my pain.”

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265. “I think given the choice between loving Mare – betrayal included – and never knowing her, I’d chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.”

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

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267. “You don’t stop loving someone just because they hurt you” he said. “It would certainly make things easier if you did.”

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268. “That’s what trust is. It’s about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.”

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269. “Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, sat atop the highest tower in the world and contemplated the End of All Things.”

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270. “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

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271. “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.”

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272. “The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”

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273. “This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love...”

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274. “And Vin liked solitude. When you’re alone, no one can betray you.”

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

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276. “Some mistakes, though, you can’t fix by being sorry. Can’t fix them, no matter what you do.”

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

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

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279. “We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.”

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280. “There’s no profit in peace.”

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281. “Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.”

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282. “Time, the Stormfather said. Which, though dross to him, is the most valuable thing a man can have.”

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283. “Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.”

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284. “Abandon the guilt,” Prof said. “Abandon the denial. Steelheart did this to her. He’s our goal. That has to be your focus. We don’t have time for grief; we only have time for vengeance.”

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285. “I had a splinter once,” Shallan noted. “It eventually got out of hand.”

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286. “They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.”

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287. “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.”

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288. “Love must be allowed to flow both ways – if it is not, then it is not truly love, I think. It is something else. Infatuation, perhaps? Either way, there are some of us who are far too quick to make martyrs of ourselves. We stand at the side, watching, thinking that we do the right thing by inaction. We fear pain – our own, or that of another.” He.”

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289. “I’ve seen Steelheart bleed.”

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290. “Very well, you two,” Pattern said. “No mating. NO MATING.” He hummed to himself, as if pleased, then sank down onto a plate.”

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291. “When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.”

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292. “Syl was silent for a moment. “Do you want to be a miracle?” “No,” Kaladin whispered. “But for them, I will be.”

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293. “Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.”

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294. “It turned out that strange little girls grow up to be strange young women.”

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295. “I’m an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. ‘Lopen,’ my mother always says, ’you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.”

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296. “The world just changed, Gaz,” Kaladin said, leaning in close. “I died down at that chasm. Now you’ve got my vengeful spirit to deal with.”

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297. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.”

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298. “Hello?” M-Bot said. “Spensa? Are you dead?” “Maybe.” “Oooh. Like the cat!”

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299. “Overcome your guilt, Kaladin. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don’t blame yourself.’ Protect, save, help – but know when to give up.”

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300. “Despite that loyalty, Hrathen had never felt what Dilaf now expressed. Hrathen had no hatreds so severe that he wept, no loves so profound that he would risk everything in their name. He had always believed that he was the perfect follower of Jaddeth; that his Lord needed levelheadedness more than He needed unbridled ardor. Now, however, he wondered.”

— Brandon Sanderson