Brandon Sanderson Quotes (1975-)

“Heroism is a myth you tell idealistic young people—specifically when you want them to go bleed for you.”

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

“That’s the trouble with science. It’s never done. Always upending itself. Ruining perfect systems for the little inconvenience of them being wrong.”

“War was a masculine art, but when you started attacking women, you’d stopped engaging in war. You deserved anything that happened to you after that point.”

“Alone in the darkness, standing with his back to the wall, facing overwhelming numbers. A glorious way to die, but Kaladin didn’t want glory. He’d given up on that foolish dream as a child.”

““I am an artist,” Wit said. “I should thank you not to demean me by insisting my art must be trying to accomplish something. In fact, you shouldn’t enjoy art. You should simply admit that it exists, then move on. Anything else is patronizing.””

““The way you talk lacks hope.” “‘Hope,’” she said, spreading her papers out on the table. “Have I ever told you how much I dislike that word? Think of what it means, what it implies. You have hope when you’re outnumbered. You have hope when you lack options. Hope is always irrational, Uncle.””