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  • #1
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

    It's really funny.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

  • #2
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

    - Breeze”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #3
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
    Breeze: For two hours?
    Elend: There were books involved.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #4
    Brandon Sanderson
    “I've always been very confident in my immaturity.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #5
    Brandon Sanderson
    “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

  • #6
    Brandon Sanderson
    “People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

  • #7
    Brandon Sanderson
    “There's always another secret.' -Kelsier”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #8
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend smiled. "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin, and a cat. Plus, you've mangaged - in our short three years together - to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancée. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

  • #9
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Breeze strolled over to the table and chose a seat with his characteristic decorum. The portly man raised his dueling cane, pointing it at Ham. 'I see that my period of intellectual respite has come to an end.'

    Ham smiled. 'I thought up a couple beastly questions while I was gone, and I've been saving them just for you, Breeze.'

    'I'm dying of anticipation,' Breeze said. He turned his cane toward Lestibournes. 'Spook, drink.'

    Spook rushed over and fetched Breeze a cup of wine.

    'He's such a fine lad,' Breeze noted, accepting the drink. 'I barely even have to nudge him Allomantically. If only the rest of you ruffians were so accommodating.'

    Spook frowned. 'Niceing the not on the playing without.'

    'I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.'

    Kelsier rolled his eyes. 'Losing the stress on the nip,' he said. 'Notting without the needing of care.'

    'Riding the rile of the rids to the right,' Spook said with a nod.

    'What are you two babbling about?' Breeze said testily.

    'Wasing the was of brightness,' Spook said. 'Nip the having of wishing of this.'

    'Ever wasing the doing of this,' Kelsier agreed.

    'Ever wasing the wish of having the have,' Ham added with a smile. 'Brighting the wish of wasing the not.'

    Breeze turned to Dockson with exasperation. 'I believe our companions have finally lost their minds, dear friend.'

    Dockson shrugged. Then, with a perfectly straight face, he said, 'Wasing not of wasing is.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #10
    Brandon Sanderson
    “... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

  • #11
    Brandon Sanderson
    “we're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

  • #12
    Brandon Sanderson
    “That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don’t put you in mortal peril every once in a while?”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

  • #13
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

  • #14
    Brandon Sanderson
    “It's going to be painful."
    "It's a fun tradition."
    "So was witch-burning," Melody said. "Unless you were the witch.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist
    tags: witch

  • #15
    Brandon Sanderson
    “My life," Melody declared, "is a tragedy.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

  • #16
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Well, that’s because they’re wrong and I’m right. No more reading for you. Let’s go get some ice cream.”

    “I don’t know if the kitchen has any,” Joel said. “It’s hard to get in the summers, and—”

    “Not from the kitchen, stupid,” Melody said, rolling her eyes. “From the parlor out on Knight Street.”

    “Oh. I’ve … never been there.”

    “What! That’s a tragedy.”

    “Melody, everything is a tragedy to you.”

    “Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters! That’s it. No more discussion. We’re going. Follow.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

  • #17
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Tantrums are a noble and time-tested strategy,she said airily. Particularly if you have a good set of lungs and are facing down a crotchety old priest. I know Stewart; he always bends if you make enough noise.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
    Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
    Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
    Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #23
    Brandon Sanderson
    NO MATING.
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #24
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero?”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #25
    Brandon Sanderson
    “He quivered on the ground his face pressed to the stone and didn’t rise.
    “Did you… did you just stick yourself to the ground?” Kaladin asked.
    “Just part of the plan, gon!’ Lopen called back. “If I am to become a delicate cloud upon the sky I must first convince the ground that I am not abandoning her. Like a worried lover, sure, she must be comforted and reassured that I will return following my dramatic and regal ascent to the sky. . . . Nearby, Lopen talked to the ground, against which he was still pressed. “Don’t worry dear one. The Lopen is vast enough to be possessed by many, many forces both terrestrial and celestial! I must soar to the air, for if I were to remain only on the ground, surely my growing magnitude would cause the land to crack and break”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #26
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You don't fly, you fall the wrong way.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #27
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Pattern, you’re to be our chaperone tonight.” “What,” Pattern said with a hum, “is a chaperone?” “That is someone who watches two young people when they are together, to make certain they don’t do anything inappropriate.” “Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as . . . dividing by zero?”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #28
    Brandon Sanderson
    “It is my solemn and important duty to bring happiness, light, and joy into your world when you’re being a dour idiot.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #29
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Very well, you two,” Pattern said. “No mating. NO MATING.” He hummed to himself, as if pleased, then sank down onto a plate.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #30
    Brandon Sanderson
    “So it’s our fault.” “Yes. Like everything else. War. Famine. Bad hair.” “Wait. Bad hair?” Shallan blew a lock of it out of her eyes. “Loud. Stubborn. Oblivious to our attempts to fix it. The Almighty gave us messy hair to prepare us for living with men.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer



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