Xavier De Becker

“Failed ideas lead to successful ones, Contemplation. They’re the only thing that does.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

“If you only think of the wrong hands magic can fall into, you forget that now and then there are right ones.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“She only got two kinds of looks: appraising, and skeptical. Those who saw her as a woman, and those who saw her as a girl. Both looks made her feel like a sack of grain being weighed, but she hated the latter more, that way it was meant to make her feel small. The fact, sometimes, it did.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“As a kid, I’d have said that courage destroys fear. Now, I’d have said that fear is what lets us be able to be courageous.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Defiant