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“It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“We must not cower in the dark because we’re afraid of the spark within us. The answer is not to put out the spark, but to learn to control it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“They're afraid of our ability to hear the stars. [...] And to them it makes us alien.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Sometimes, the answers we need don’t match the questions we’re asking.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“It was his ability to trust," she said. "It was the way that he made good people into better people, the way that he inspired them. His crew worked because he had confidence in them - because he respected them. And, in return, they respected each other. Men like Breeze and Clubs became heroes because Kelsier had faith in them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“What I’m trying to say is that you don’t understand a man until you understand what makes him do what he does. Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“In refusing to be a stepping stone, she had made herself a boot.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“Truth over delusion. Growth over comfort.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“Because good people can turn desperate when the horrors are upon them—especially people whose culture of plenty has left them with no systems to cope with scarcity or cataclysm. Good people will turn monstrous when it’s down to their survival or someone else’s.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“Thomil had said that how a person felt about their actions didn’t matter; only the actions themselves mattered.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“But maybe you shouldn’t be looking for life to be easier because you choose to do something that is right! Personally, I think life is fair. It’s merely that often, you can’t immediately see what balances it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Would you still have principles? Isn’t a principle about what you give up, not what you gain?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The best indication of what human beings will do is not what they think, but what the record says similar groups have done in the past.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“NO MATING.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

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

“The most important word a man can say are, "I will do better.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer