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Quotes from Words of Radiance — Brandon Sanderson

born 1975 United States

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“‘Honor’ is a word applied to the actions of men from the past who have had their lives scrubbed clean by historians.”

Words of Radiance (2014)

To be human was often to be forced to choose between distasteful options.

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They all ignored the truth stabbing them in the face.

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The difference between a successful thief and a dead thief is knowing when to escape with your takings.

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“I know full well how to have a good time.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. It involves being anywhere you aren’t.”

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Better to be overly cautious than naive.

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I watched you keep your word with perfection. This is a thing lost to most people—it is the only genuine beauty in the world.

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

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“Not so crude then, if it almost killed him.”
“Pardon, Torol, but almost is a big distinction in assassinations.”

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“We just need to be more optimistic.”
“Being optimistic does not change facts.”

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His mother would probably lament how little Kaladin care for religious observance. The way Kaladin figured it, the Almighty didn’t show much concern for him, so why care back?

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To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.

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“Hmmm. Someone has a high opinion of himself. Comes with being royalty, I suppose. Like funny hats and a fondness for beheadings.”

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She’d had so much more time when she was younger. She couldn’t help thinking she’d wasted much of it.

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It wasn’t a lie. It was a different truth.

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Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history, and…

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To be human is to seek beauty.

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Do not make me kick you. I do not like kicking. It hurts my toes.

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All stories 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.

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That was the problem with sneaking about. If nothing seemed to have gone wrong, you rarely knew if it was because you were safe, or if someone had spotted you and just hadn’t done anything. Yet.

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Attribution

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