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    Brandon Sanderson
    “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
    tags: storytelling
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: inspirational, motto
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    Robert Jordan
    “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: forgiveness, men, women
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    Robert Jordan
    “A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
    ― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
    tags: fools, humour
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    Robert Jordan
    “The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: fiction
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    Robert Jordan
    “Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
    ― Robert Jordan
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    Robert Jordan
    “Til shade is gone,
    til water is gone
    Into the shadow with teeth bared
    Screaming defiance with the last breath
    To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn
    tags: bad-ass, inspirational
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    Robert Jordan
    “Read and find out.”
    ― Robert Jordan
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    Robert Jordan
    “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
    tags: fires-of-heaven, mat-cauthon, matrim, robert-jordan, wheel-of-time
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “I've always been very confident in my immaturity.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: personality
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson
    tags: humor, warbreaker, willful-ignorance
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “There's always another secret.' -Kelsier”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: kelsier, mistborn, secret
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris
    tags: books
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Eternity ended ten years ago.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson
    tags: fantasy
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?"
    "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest...”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: dreams, expectations, hopes
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Margaret Walker
    “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
    ― Margaret Walker
    tags: books, inspirational
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “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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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: dalinar, sacrifice, victory
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: arwen, evenstar-luthien
    175 likes



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