(^з^)-☆ > (^з^)-☆'s Quotes

“The path is eternal,” he said. “But you mustn’t sleep—I made that mistake. Turn left at the ghosts with ash in their hair, then left at the evergreen wood, and straight through the vale where my brother will die. If you lose your way, you will lose only yourself, but if you lose the path, you will lose everything you never knew you had.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“That was when the second party of sheerie made their entrance, smashing through the museum doors in a hail of splintered wood. I wondered if they were unaware of how human doors operated, or if they simply enjoyed a dramatic entrance. I say second party, though I can only assume they were different sheerie; the creatures did not look alike, but they were so peculiar to my mortal eyes that I struggled to compare them.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“The fourth was the most ridiculous of all; an entire hot air balloon burst forth, made from gaudy silks in a dozen different colours. It drifted a few feet off the floor, bouncing gently off the display cases.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“I knew I was being unkind, as his need for cleanliness is, I think, more compulsion than preference, but I was too irritated to care.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“Such a paper would no doubt secure me an invitation to any conference I desired, though I will note that, as we fled the assassins surging out of the clouds, I was not worried about conferences, or at least they were not at the forefront of my thoughts.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“the hion lines were the colors of Kilahito. Needing no pole or wire to hold them aloft, they ran down every street, reflected in every window, lit every denizen.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“he was important in the brilliantly modern way that teachers, firefighters, and nurses are important: essential workers who earn fancy days of appreciation on the calendar, words of praise in every politician’s mouth, and murmurs of thanks from people at restaurants. Indeed, discussions of the intense value of these professions crowd out other more mundane conversations. Like ones regarding salary increases. As a result, Painter didn’t make much”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“But this was close to where Virtuosity Splintered herself, and I suspect that had an effect.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“You might think that extreme. If so, have you perhaps never heard of religion?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Each yoki-hijo trained in an ancient and powerful art. A deliberate, wondrous artistry requiring the full synergy of body and mind. Geological reorganization on the microscale, requiring acute understanding of gravitational equilibrium. In other words, they stacked rocks.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“But then again, there’s nothing intrinsically valuable about any kind of art. That’s not me complaining or making light. It’s one of the most wonderful aspects to art—the fact that people decide what is beautiful. We don’t get to decide what is food and what is not. (Yes, exceptions exist. Don’t be pedantic. When you pass those marbles, we’re all going to laugh.) But we absolutely get to decide what counts as art.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Like a man with diarrhea in a sandpaper factory, sometimes all available options are less than ideal.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“And give me voluptuous curves, because they remind me of a graphed cosine. And also because boobs look fun.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“He considered a moment. Longer than she’d have predicted. He was humble, evidently. Finally he nodded. “Yes. I’m among the greatest.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“That’s so surreal. I feel like a balloon.” “A what?” “I’ll show you sometime,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Plants on Yumi’s world don’t really defy physics so much as they sneak past while physics is distracted by a nice drama on the viewer. Probably something involving pendulums. Physics loves those things.)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Why…did you strip?” he asked. “You’re invisible.” “Solidarity!” she shouted,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshipped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“All he found was a demure, perplexed Sarene.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“hard times make people willing to accept a man who preaches change.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Nobility is in one’s bearing as much as it is in one’s breeding.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“How simple it had been to assume that outward strength bespoke inward righteousness.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris