Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity – that was how to get stuff done.”

— Brandon Sanderson

402. “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

403. “There are no good men, Bleeder said. Choice is an illusion, lawman. There are those created to be selfish and there are those created to be selfless. This does not make them good or evil, any more than the ravaging lion is evil when compared to the placid rabbit.”

— Brandon Sanderson

404. “Claim the Stars.”

— Brandon Sanderson

405. “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

406. “The best performances, are those that can be performed once.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

408. “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

409. “I think I would feel more comfortable in this city,” she said, “if I didn’t know that our Mistborn had the volatile emotions of a teenage girl.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

411. “Metal. In some ways, that was the true mark of mankind. Man tamed the stones, the bones of the earth below. Man tamed the fire, that ephemeral, consuming soul of life. And combining the two, he drew forth the marrow of the rocks themselves, then made molten tools.”

— Brandon Sanderson

412. “Blushweaver sighed. “You avoid thinking, you avoid me, you avoid effort... is there anything you don’t avoid?” “Breakfast.”

— Brandon Sanderson

413. “Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.”

— Brandon Sanderson

414. “What would they think if they knew that their champion – the Hero of Ages, their savior – doubted himself? Perhaps they wouldn’t be shocked at all. In a way, this is what worries me most. Maybe, in their hearts, they wonder – just as I do. When they see me, do they see a liar?”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

416. “We may not be the ones to kill Steelheart. But even if we fail, we might be the cause of his death. Someday.”

— Brandon Sanderson

417. “The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”

— Brandon Sanderson

418. “If you are anything like me – Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome – then you have undoubtedly read many books.”

— Brandon Sanderson

419. “To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.”

— Brandon Sanderson

420. “Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. “I don’t get it, El. Why’d she attack him?” “She’s loony,” Spook said.”

— Brandon Sanderson

421. “But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”

— Brandon Sanderson

422. “Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.”

— Brandon Sanderson

423. “The prophecies are not literal, Mistress,” OreSeur said. “They’re metaphors – expressions of hope. Or, at least, that is how I have always seen them. Perhaps your Terris prophecies are the same? Expressions of a belief that if the people were in danger, their gods would send a Hero to protect them? In this case, the vagueness would be intentional – and rational. The prophecies were never meant to mean something specific, but more to speak of a general feeling. A general hope.”

— Brandon Sanderson

424. “Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.”

— Brandon Sanderson

425. “It’s good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It will do you good to realize the price of fighting.”

— Brandon Sanderson

426. “Elend smiled, recognizing the reference. Trentison’s Supplying in Scale. A few years earlier, he would have agreed with Yomen, and the two would probably have spent the afternoon discussing the philosophy of leadership in Yomen’s palace. However, Elend had learned things in the last few years that he simply hadn’t been able to get form his studies.”

— Brandon Sanderson

427. “Kelsier watched after him, then did the only rational thing. He ate the bolt he’d taken from the bottom of the stool.”

— Brandon Sanderson

428. “I know that many women who read this will see it only as further proof that I am the godless heretic everyone claims. – From Oathbringer, preface.”

— Brandon Sanderson

429. “Sparks. Good metaphor. Walking on crumpled tinfoil. I’d have to remember that one.”

— Brandon Sanderson

430. “I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.”

— Brandon Sanderson

431. “I’m mysterious,” Kaladin said. “I used to think you were. Then I found out you don’t like good puns – it’s truly possible to know too much about somebody.”

— Brandon Sanderson

432. “You didn’t promise to kill me,” Wayne said, pulling on his socks. “You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.”

— Brandon Sanderson

433. “If you don’t believe what I’m telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.”

— Brandon Sanderson

434. “It had been like discovering that Santa Claus was secretly a Nazi.”

— Brandon Sanderson

435. “Be slow to trust a man with clothing that was too new. You didn’t get to wear new, clean clothing by doing honest work.”

— Brandon Sanderson

436. “Since nothing I can say would be able to pierce your delusions, let the fact that I make no arguments stand as ultimate proof that I am right. As Plato once said that his friend Socrates once said, “I know that I’m right because I’m the only person humble enough to admit that I’m not.” Or something like that. I.”

— Brandon Sanderson

437. “Scared to go onward, but terrified to go back to what you were.”

— Brandon Sanderson

438. “You watch yourself,” I said, wishing I had something to stand on to bring my eyes level with his. “When you are broken and mourning your fall from grace, I will consume your shadow in my own, and laugh at your misery.”

— Brandon Sanderson

439. “I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.”

— Brandon Sanderson

440. “Why, Elend! That’s almost romantic – in a twisted ‘I’m going to make my wife want to kill me’ sort of way.”

— Brandon Sanderson

441. “If that loss brings learning.”

— Brandon Sanderson

442. “Vin didn’t consider herself to be either self-assured or self-motivated. Still, she saw no point in asking why. Life had taught her that sometimes things simply happened.”

— Brandon Sanderson

443. “I see only one woman here. The one who is standing up.”

— Brandon Sanderson

444. “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

445. “Unfortunately, Alanik, the game takes no care for your interest. It plays you either way.”

— Brandon Sanderson

446. “At his neck, hanging outside his clothing, Demoux wore a necklace that bore a small silver spear: the increasingly popular symbol of the Church of the Survivor. It seemed odd to her that the weapon that killed Kelsier would become the symbol of his followers.”

— Brandon Sanderson

447. “How easy it was to ignore a blackened heart if you dressed it in a pressed uniform and a reputation for honesty.”

— Brandon Sanderson

448. “Spensa, I hear no more footfalls. Have you temporary stopped being bipedal?”

— Brandon Sanderson

449. “Spook: No, I’m not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.”

— Brandon Sanderson

450. “Men in power always pretend things like virtue, or divine guidance, some kind of mandate to ‘protect’ the rest of us. If we believe that the Almighty put them where they are, it’s easier for us to swallow what they do to us.”

— Brandon Sanderson