What did you put in the fire?” Kaladin said. “To make that special smoke?””Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire.””But, I saw-“”What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn’t live until it is imagined...

The Larsta believed that life was about seeking the divine, he read. They taught that art draws us closer to understanding divinity. Since not all men can spend their time in art, it is to...

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

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

I don’t have much time for stories,” Vin said.”Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days.” A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. “It makes me wonder what...

Do not deride someone’s faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent,” Sazed said quietly.

is the culmination of all disasters!

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be…free.

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

Hello, a cheerful voice said in his mind. Would you like to destroy some evil today?

Though most expect young men to be fools, I’ve noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

Lightsong met the man’s eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. “My life to yours,” Lifesong said. “My breath become yours.

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword.”She raised an eyebrow.”Sharp as hell,” Lightsong said, “but lacking a point.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

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.

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

We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who’d just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.

Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don’t practice studying things you don’t like, then you’ll have a very hard time in life.

In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll end up miserable.

Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and...

A leader is often judged by how well he bears responsibility. As king, everything that happens in your kingdom – regardless of who commits the act -is your fault.

A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood

Wit smiled. “All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

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...

Yes!

The strong lines of the woman’s face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?

Clothing doesn’t really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.

The world isn’t fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

I didn’t have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow?

Is good story.

No reason to force it.”All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch on her—wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me...

You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler.”Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I’m far more than just a...

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Err on the side of awesome.

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.

The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

That’s the point, isn’t it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We’ll win in the end.

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened,...

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

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

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.

Breeze strolled over to the table and chose a seat with his characteristic decorum. The portly man raised his dueling cane, pointing it at Ham. ‘I see that my period of intellectual respite has come...