Brandon Sanderson

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.

In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.

I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.

You trusted me enough to jump off the wall, and I caught you.

That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

You learned this,_ Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, __rom a book.___r_yes?__e looked back at the picture. __ need to read more.

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.Eternity ended ten years ago.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Never go on a date unarmed._ Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?""I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation," he said."She is a heretic.""She refused to join any of the devotaries because she did not believe in their teachings. Rather than compromise for the sake of appearances, she has been honest and has refused to make professions she does not believe. I find that a sign of honor.

Men like you preach change, but I wonder. Is this a battle we can really fight?___ou__e fighting it already, Goodman Mennis. You__e just losing horribly.