Lakshmi Sundaram

“Danger doesn’t make a thing less beautiful - in fact, there’s a magnifying influence. Like how a candle seems brightest on the darkest night. Deadly beauty is the starkest variety. And you will never find a murderess more intoxicating, more entrancing, than the sea”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves. More potently, our minds are a hungry audience, craving only the peaks and valleys of experience. The bland erodes, leaving behind the distinctive bits to be remembered again and again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“You can basically define someone by the stuff they like, Tress. It’s what sets us apart, you know? We talk about how important culture is, but what is culture? It ain’t government, or language, or any of that hokum. No, it’s the stuff we like. Plays, stories, marble collections.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Still, like the proverbial politician in a dumpster, it was a good start.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea