Brandon Sanderson

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and__f you__e not careful__hose lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

I wasn__ a nerd, mind you, but I__ spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I__ 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.

My name is David Charleston.I kill people with super powers.

Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them.

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.Waxilliam: And?Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation.Waxilliam: Comfortable?Wayne: No. Boring.

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.- Breeze

Elend: I kind of lost track of time_Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.It's really funny.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he raised his spear and threw himself off the end of the wooden platform, launching into the air above the cavernous void. Bridgemen cried out in dismay. Syl zipped about him with worry. Parshendi looked up with amazement as a lone bridgeman sailed through the air toward them. His drained, worn-out body barely had any strength left. In that moment of crystallized time, he looked down on his enemies. Parshendi with their marbled red and black skin. Soldiers raising finely crafted weapons, as if to cut him from the sky. Strangers, oddities in carapace breastplates and skullcaps. Many of them wearing beards. Beards woven with glowing gemstones. Kaladin breathed in. Like the power of salvation itself__ike rays of sunlight from the eyes of the Almighty__tormlight exploded from those gemstones. It streamed through the air, pulled in visible streams, like glowing columns of luminescent smoke. Twisting and turning and spiraling like tiny funnel clouds until they slammed into him. And the storm came to life again.

I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I__l open my eyes and look back at them, and they__l know hat I survived.

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love...

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

I ask of you your lives,_ Elend said, voice echoing, __nd your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor__our strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.__ach moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!__here was a brief pause. us!