Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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.”

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352. “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!”

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

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354. “It’s better if I have a hat... You wanna know a guy? Put on his hat.” -Wayne.”

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355. “What if everybody is frightened, and nobody has the answers?”

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356. “War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.”

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

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358. “Adolin is right,” Veil said. “He’s always been right about you. Tell me. Who is the strongest of mind? The woman whose emotions are always on her side? Or the woman whose own thoughts betray her? You have fought this fight every day of your life, Shallan. And you are not weak.”

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

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

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

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362. “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.”

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363. “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.”

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364. “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.”

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365. “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.”

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

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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.”

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368. “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.”

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

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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!”

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372. “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.”

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373. “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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374. “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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375. “Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you’ve decided to have me disposed of?”

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376. “No mating,” Pattern buzzed softly on the wall.”

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377. “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.”

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

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379. “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.”

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380. “You see, the great thing about madness is that it’s all in your head.”

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381. “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.”

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

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383. “You don’t fly, you fall the wrong way.”

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384. “Metal. It was the key to everything.”

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385. “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.”

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

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

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389. “He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn’t beaten.”

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390. “I am a stick,′ he said. He sounded satisfied.”

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

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392. “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.”

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

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394. “The God King’s superiority was arbitrary, much like Lightsong’s divinity – both part of a grand game of make-believe. But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”

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395. “Brightness Markal! What a disaster that hairstyle is; how brave of you to show it to the world.”

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396. “My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.”

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397. “I need you to stick your head in a bucket of water and slowly count to a thousand!”

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398. “Visit?” Yeden asked uncomfortably. “You’re going to visit the Lord Ruler? Are you insa... ” Yeden trailed off, then glanced at the rest of the room. “Right. I forgot.”

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399. “Kelsier glanced down at his hands and forearms. They still burned sometimes, though he was certain the pain was only in his mind. He looked up at Mennis and smiled. “You ask why I smile, Goodman Mennis? Well, the Lord Ruler thinks he has claimed laughter and joy for himself. I’m disinclined to let him do so. This is one battle that doesn’t take very much effort to fight.”

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400. “The day of heroes has passed,” Uncle Edwarn said. “The stories of people breaking out of history belong to another world. We have reached an era of modernism, both louder and more silent at the same time. You watch. Where once kings and warriors shaped the world, now quiet men in offices will do the same – and do it far, far more effectively.”

— Brandon Sanderson