Xavier De Becker

“Even in science," Contemplation said, "faith plays a role. Each experiment done, each step on the path of knowledge, is achieved by striking out into the darkness. You can't know what you will find, or that you will find anything at all. It is faith that drives us - faith in answers that must exist.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

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

“And that was the madness, the cruelty, that life was fragile, and he had so much to love, and spent all his time mourning the loss before he suffered it.”
― 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