Harrison Scott > Harrison Scott's Quotes

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“Here is your flaw, Shaitan, Lord of the Dark, Lord of Envy, Lord of Nothing, here is why you fail. It was not about me. It’s never been about me.”
It was about a woman, torn and beaten down, cast from her throne and made a puppet. A woman who had crawled when she had to. That woman still fought.
It was about a man that love repeatedly forsook. A man who found relevance in a world that others would have let pass them by. A man who remembered stories and who took fool boys under his wing when the smarter move would have been to keep on walking. That man still fought.
It was about a woman with a secret, a hope for the future. A woman who had hunted the truth before others could. A woman who had given her live, then had it returned. That woman still fought.
It was about a man whose family was taken from him, but who stood tall in his sorrow and protected those he could.
It was about a woman who refused to believe that she could not help, could not heal those who had been harmed.
It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.
It was about a woman who would not bend her back while she was beaten, and who shown with a light for all who watched, including Rand.
It was about them all.
~Rand al Thor”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

“Spook, child. You want to be like me? Really like me? Then fight when you are beaten!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Secret History

“Please don't be angry at me for abandoning you. I was given an extension on life. I should have died in Mare's place years ago. I was ready for this.

The others will need you. You're their Mistborn now— you'll have to protect them in the months to come. The nobility will send assassins against our fledgling kingdom's rulers.

Farewell. I'll tell Mare about you. She always wanted a daughter.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“She embraced him, and he found himself weeping. The daughter he'd never had, the little child of the streets. Though she was still small, she'd outgrown him. And she loved him anyway. He held his daughter close against his own broken soul.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Secret History

“Huh, Kelsier thought. He holds the powers of creation in twain, a god among gods. And he’s still a terrible liar.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Secret History

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”
― Robert Jordan

“Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it.
"I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather."
Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

“Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

“There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.”
― Brandon Sanderson, A Memory of Light

“When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while...”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

“I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!

--Mat Cauthon”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

“Death is light as a feather; duty, heavy as a mountain”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Stories have power. Gleemen's tales, and bards' epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart

“I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not.
-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)”
― Robert Jordan

“Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the hadori in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the ki'sain in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the Shadow. I wear the ki'sain, Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the hadori. So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the Last Battle alone?”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“My name is Nynaeve ti al’Meara Mandragoran. The message I want sent is this. My husband rides from World’s End toward Tarwin’s Gap, toward Tarmon Gai’don. Will he ride alone?”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“A woman's love can be violent.
Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to.
Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight