Warbreaker Quotes

“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

“My life to yours. My breath become yours.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours," Lifesong said. "My breath become yours.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“You're a sword not a palm tree”
― Brandon Sanderson

“‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Imaginary things were often the only
items of real substance in people’s lives.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Though, when I'm proven wrong and the underprivileged masses storm my palace and burn me at the stake, I'll be sure to inform them that you were right all along. You'll get the last laugh. Or...well, the last scream, since you'll probably be tied up beside me.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“They push us into it, Lightsong thought. They craft all of this splendor and luxury, they give us whatever we desire, then they subtly poke at us. Be a god. Prophesy. Maintain our illusion for us.

Die. Die so that we can keep believing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“The Hallandren sent those soldiers in to kill. Kill the poor that they created. We're going to stop them from doing things like that. I don't care what it takes. I'm tired of being pretty and nice and ignoring ostentation. I want to DO something.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“I can’t understand that, he wrote. You’re wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there’s no color inside of them. They just go about their duties, eyes down, solemn. You’ve got color on the inside, so much of it that it bursts out and colors everything around you."

She smiled. “That sounds like BioChroma.”

"You are more honest than BioChroma, he wrote. My Breath, it makes things more bright, but it isn’t mine. It was given to me. Yours is your own.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker