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#1

“Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

tags: pain

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#2

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: inspirational, motto

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#3

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

tags: kaladin

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#4

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

tags: books, humor

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#5

“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

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#6

“I've always been very confident in my immaturity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: personality

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#7

“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

tags: relationships, women

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#8

“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

tags: inspirational, motivational

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#9

“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.

Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.

It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: insightful

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#10

“Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

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#11

“What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past.

They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.

I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.

Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse.

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: choice, free-will, freedom, gender-roles, philosphy, politics, preconceptions, scholarship, sexism, woman, womanhood, women

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#12

“I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: stupidity, teft, tolerance

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#13

“This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

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#14

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: jasnah-kholin

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#15

“I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: awesomeness, lift

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#16

“It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

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#17

“NO MATING.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

tags: awkward, couples, funny, hilarious, lovers, mating, pattern

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#18

“I am a stick.”
― Brandon Sanderson

tags: humor, please-become-fire-though, words-of-radiance, yes-stick-we-know

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#19

“You. Cannot. Have. My. SACRIFICE!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

tags: adolin, adolin-kholin, maya, rhythm-of-war, trial

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#20

“Journey before destination, you bastard.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

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#21

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: feminism, inspirational

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#22

“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: books, ead-duryan, reading

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#23

“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: anxiety, depression, ead-duryan, mental-health, monsters, sabran-berethnet

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#24

“In the tales, she has no name, like too many women in stories of old.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

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