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#1

“Hello! Would you like to destroy some evil today?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

tags: nightblood

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#2

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

tags: hero, inspirational, sacrifice, warbreaker

81 likes

#3

“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

tags: relationships, women

940 likes

#4

“I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."

She raised an eyebrow.

"Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

tags: fantasy, humor

677 likes

#5

“She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

1576 likes

#6

“Really, she didn’t know if she’d truly like to find out more about the pygmy tyrant. She just liked the name, because, for a five-foot-tall girl, pygmy tyrant sounded like a career.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

21 likes

#7

“You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

298 likes

#8

“It has always seemed to me that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn't about what people call you, Spensa. It's about who you know yourself to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

tags: bravery, inspirational

210 likes

#9

“Sometimes, the answers we need don't match the questions we're asking." He looked up at me. "And sometimes, the coward makes fools of wiser men.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

114 likes

#10

“And the warrior’s way was not to run from failure, but to own up to it and do better.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

108 likes

#11

“And yet, when you fly, you are amazing. You’re so determined, so skillful, so passionate. You’re a fire, Spin. When everyone else is calm, you’re a burning bonfire. Beautiful, like a newly forged blade.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

26 likes

#12

“Is anything fair?"
He smiled. "Death is. He treats us all the same.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

74 likes

#13

“Listen to the stars.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

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#14

“His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: adam-parrish, ahhh, oh-my, ronan-lynch

1497 likes

#15

“He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

1086 likes

#16

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

6258 likes

#17

“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: jane-austen, pride-and-prejudice

303 likes

#18

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: humor, remaining-silent, reticence

1507 likes

#19

“My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: books

818 likes

#20

“I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: humor

101 likes

#21

“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

1415 likes

#22

“...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

tags: leadership, perseverance

572 likes

#23

“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

tags: books, humor, reading

455 likes

#24

“A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

426 likes

#25

“You don't need to be gifted with a blade. You are your own best weapon.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

265 likes

#26

“Go away, little ghost. Go haunt someone else.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

tags: haunting, kestrel-ghost, roshar

45 likes

#27

“It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

tags: fantasy, horses, ireland, monsters, november

541 likes

#28

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

64750 likes

#29

“Books have great value, actions have greater value.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

tags: action

104 likes

#30

“I say, 'I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick.'
Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, 'It's late for that, Puck.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

tags: puck, sean

1013 likes

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