Brandon Sanderson

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

Err on the side of awesome.

A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.

What would you think if I told you that I wasn__ an Allomancer?_ Sazed asked.____ think that you were lying,_ Vin said.__ave you known me to lie before?___he best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

Eternity ended ten years ago.

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and w

Only expectation has value as currency,

What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

Cleaning the wound is often more painfulthan the cut itself.

Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon sanderson(Elantris)