Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “We’re not moments, Megan, you and me. We’re events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I’m sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.”

— Brandon Sanderson

352. “Adolin was there in a heartbeat, attacking with more skill than any other man Dalinar had known. The lad was a genius with the Blade, an artist with paint of only one shade.”

— Brandon Sanderson

353. “People with passion are people who will destroy – for a man’s passion is not true until he proves how much he’s willing to sacrifice for it.”

— Brandon Sanderson

354. “Do you have a preference?” Tillaume could manufacture dozens of varieties of tea from the simplest of starting points, blending and making what he considered ideal. “Whatever.” “My lord. There is great importance to tea. It should never merely be ’whatever.”

— Brandon Sanderson

355. “You sent him to the sky to die, assassin,” Kaladin said, Stormlight puffing from his lips, “but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.”

— Brandon Sanderson

356. “Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence.”

— Brandon Sanderson

357. “If you toss a kid into a lions den, can you really blame the lion?”

— Brandon Sanderson

358. “To cover his embarrassment, he attuned Curiosity and tried Rock’s drink of the day. “This is good! What is in it?” “Ha! Is water I boiled cremlings in, before serving them last night.”

— Brandon Sanderson

359. “We exist to be killed,” Kaladin said. He blinked, glancing at the other few members of Bridge Four sitting apathetically in the rain. “If we’re not dead already.”

— Brandon Sanderson

360. “I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.”

— Brandon Sanderson

361. “Do not look to the executioner for the reason his blade falls. And.”

— Brandon Sanderson

362. “The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you’re always planning something.”

— Brandon Sanderson

363. “It frightens me,” Shallan said, “because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes our perception. I don’t see clearly. I want to, but I don’t know if I ever truly can.”

— Brandon Sanderson

364. “Prince Raoden of Arelon awoke early that morning, completely unaware that he had been damned for all eternity.”

— Brandon Sanderson

365. “I hadn’t been fighting because of my father’s death. I fought because of his dreams.”

— Brandon Sanderson

366. “El cuerpo necesita muchas comidas diferentes para mantenerse sano. Y la mente necesita muchas ideas distintas para mantenerse aguda.”

— Brandon Sanderson

367. “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

368. “Tremble and fear, all enemies!” he shouted. “For we shall shake the air with thunder and blood! Your doom is imminent!”

— Brandon Sanderson

369. “What good is seeking a greater law, when that law can be the whims of a man either stupid or ruthless?”

— Brandon Sanderson

370. “I trust you with their lives,′ Prof said, still writing, ’and them with yours. Don’t betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don’t just act because you can; act because it’s the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you’ll be all right.”

— Brandon Sanderson

371. “His brother, dead. His wife, dead. Family, friends, and heroes. All dead. You push me to seek revenge? he thought. Well, you shall have it!”

— Brandon Sanderson

372. “I represent that one thing you’ve never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope – Kelsier.”

— Brandon Sanderson

373. “He gritted his teeth, frustrated with himself, but there was nothing he could do about years past. Perhaps he could change the future.”

— Brandon Sanderson

374. “Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better – a member of a community where every individual was vital.”

— Brandon Sanderson

375. “The two great constants of life. Food and death.”

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376. “He was right. I was letting myself get distracted, like a rabbit doing math problems instead of looking for foxes.”

— Brandon Sanderson

377. “When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.”

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378. “Just for that, I shall hunt your firstborn and laugh with glee as I tell them of your death in terrible detail, with many unpleasant adjectives!”

— Brandon Sanderson

379. “For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.”

— Brandon Sanderson

380. “He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.”

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381. “She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love.”

— Brandon Sanderson

382. “It has always seemed to me that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn’t about what people call you, Spensa. It’s about who you know yourself to be.”

— Brandon Sanderson

383. “Sometimes I wonder if I’m going mad. Perhaps it is due to the pressure of knowing that I must somehow bear the burden of an entire world. Perhaps it is caused by the death I have seen, the friends I have lost. The friends I have been forced to kill.”

— Brandon Sanderson

384. “AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it – because it reminded him of her.”

— Brandon Sanderson

385. “To a drone I’d have a tiny heat signature, like a squirrel or something. A secretly very, very deadly squirrel.”

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386. “You want to change the world, Shallan. That’s well and good. But be careful. The world predates you. She has seniority.”

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387. “Huh, Kelsier thought. He holds the powers of creation in twain, a god among gods. And he’s still a terrible liar.”

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388. “Adolin sighed softly. “Of course. He’s probably their leader now or something. Storming bridgeboy.”

— Brandon Sanderson

389. “If I am to become a delicate cloud upon the sky, I must first convince the ground that I am not abandoning her. Like a worried lover, sure, she must be comforted and reassured that I will return following my dramatic and regal ascent to the sky.”

— Brandon Sanderson

390. “My Megan is a sunrise, always changing, but beautiful the entire time.”

— Brandon Sanderson

391. “You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.”

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392. “I think that’s everything. It was a fun job, wasn’t it? When you remember me, please remember that. Remember to smile. Now, move quickly. May you rule in wisdom.” – Kelsier.”

— Brandon Sanderson

393. “He holds the most frightening and terrible of all of the Shards. Ponder on that for a time, you old reptile, and tell me if your insistence on nonintervention holds firm. Because I assure you, Rayse will not be similarly inhibited.”

— Brandon Sanderson

394. “Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you’ve decided to have me disposed of?”

— Brandon Sanderson

395. “I risked and I lost but the risk was still worth it.”

— Brandon Sanderson

396. “Good night, sweet prince,” M-Bot whispered as the junk crashed to the ground. “Or princess. Or, most likely, genderless piece of inanimate space junk.”

— Brandon Sanderson

397. “Kelsier smiled. Gods, it appeared, could still fall for a classic misdirection con.”

— Brandon Sanderson

398. “It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.”

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399. “For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.”

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400. “She wore trousers, because skirts were stupid, and boots, ’cuz stuff needed to be kicked.”

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