Bethany > Bethany's Quotes

“Time and again, racist ideas have not been cooked up from the boiling pot of ignorance and hate. Time and again, powerful and brilliant men and women have produced racist ideas in order to justify the racist policies of their era, in order to redirect the blame for their era’s racial disparities away from those policies and onto Black people.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

“Already, the American mind was accomplishing that indispensable intellectual activity of someone consumed with racist ideas: individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity. Negative behavior by any Black person became proof of what was wrong with Black people, while negative behavior by any White person only proved what was wrong with that person.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

“But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“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.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue it after failure?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom too.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then?"
"I believe in them all."
Vin frowned. "None of them contradict each other?"
Sazed smiled. "Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“A good king is one who is trusted by his people- and one who deserves that trust.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“You know,” he said, “it amazes me sometimes that we even try. With everything they’ve done to us—the deaths, the tortures, the agonies—you’d think that we would just give up on things like hope and love. But we don’t.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“He had glimpsed eternity in the drowned forest, and it had opened something up inside him which could not bear to be any smaller than he already was. And by God, it would be a terrible smallness, a terrible selfishness, to force upon another man a fate he could not bear himself.”
― Emily Tesh, Drowned Country

“New worlds are born out of destruction.”
― L. Penelope, Song of Blood & Stone

“Our destiny can be taken in hand, molded, and shaped, while chance makes foolishness out of whatever attempts to control it. Does this make destiny the master of luck?”
― L. Penelope, Song of Blood & Stone

“Do what you think you can't.”
― L. Penelope, Song of Blood & Stone

“War. It drags us under. It tears us apart.”
― L. Penelope, Song of Blood & Stone

“My heart was never my own. It belonged more to the ones I loved than to me.”
― L. Penelope, Song of Blood & Stone

“Most folks hate easy and love hard. Should be the other way around, I reckon.”
― L. Penelope, Song of Blood & Stone

“Sometimes it's the little things that make a big difference in someone's life.”
― L. Penelope, Song of Blood & Stone

“Grief has a taste, bitter and lingering, but so soft it sometimes disguises itself as sweetness.”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“There is a difference between living the suffering and reading about it.”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“It never ceases to amaze me how someone can possess the world or nothing at all, and still have their happiness hinge on the small moments between them and the ones they love.”
― Kim Harrison, Trouble With the Cursed

“That was war for you, like a game of musical chairs where seats kept disappearing until only one was left, and people rarely stopped to ask who the hell was in charge of the music.”
― Valerie Valdes, Chilling Effect