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Quotes from Dawnshard — Brandon Sanderson

born 1975 United States

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You would become the things you pretend to defend against.

Dawnshard (2020)

“It’s politics. The annoying kind.”
“There’s another kind?”

Dawnshard (2020)

The sea was so open, so welcoming. Pay her a little respect, and she would carry you anywhere you wished to go. She’d even feed you along the way and lull you to sleep with her songs at night.

Dawnshard (2020)

That was the thing about omens—they were made up. Imagined signals of something nebulous. So why not make them up to be something positive?

Dawnshard (2020)

Up close, differences could chafe. But if you remembered that from far away you all looked the same…well, that was important too.

Dawnshard (2020)

Well, not on Lopen’s watch. You didn’t let your friends drown in nameless oceans during a frigid storm. That was, sure, basic friendship rules right there.

Dawnshard (2020)

The sea was a strange mistress indeed. Open. Welcoming. Inviting.
Sometimes a little too much so.

Dawnshard (2020)

“Vstim is good and honest,” Rysn said. “You don’t get a reputation for either without some people seeing your nature as an opportunity.”

Dawnshard (2020)

Hey, have you heard about the time I saved Huio from being swallowed? Oh yes. He was going to get eaten. By a monster uglier than the women he courts. And I flew into the thing’s mouth to save him. Off the tongue. Then I was very humble about having done such a heroic deed.

Dawnshard (2020)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brandon Sanderson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.