Brandon Sanderson

So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?

This is insanity!""No, this is scholarship!

Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.

Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it__ pointed at someone else.

So,_ Marasi said, __ou traded a dead man__ scarf for another dead man__ gun. But_the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic____on__ try,_ Waxillium said. __ogic doesn__ work on Wayne.___ bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,_ Wayne explained. __t lets me add two ___ two and get a pickle.

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

So... wait. You're saying that on the other side__here I obviously believed in the other side__ realized that if I Returned I wouldn't believe in the other side, so I came back with the purpose of discovering faith in the other side, which I only lost because I Returned in the first place?"Llarimar paused. Then he smiled. "That last one breaks down a little bit in the face of logic, doesn't it?

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

Not having ice cream,_ she proclaimed, __s the culmination of all disasters!

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

It__ what happens when you shoot someone,_ Wayne pointed out. __t least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

What you did tonight was clever,_ Wit said. __ou turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.