Cass > Cass's Quotes

“You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
― Robert Jordan

“If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it.”
― Robert Jordan, The Complete Wheel of Time

“You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different,” Sazed said. “Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then knows that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It’s in how they make use of what life has shown them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“The only way to create something that nobody hates is to ensure that it can't be loved either. Remove enough spice from soup and you'll just end up with water.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“I started to create a new persona. Formless. A... version of me, but..." How did she explain it? "A version of me with no face. A version of me who could do terrible things. I walked away from it, Wit, but that capacity is still inside me."
"Shallan," he said, and she looked up, meeting his eyes. "If it weren't for that capacity, then what good would choices be? If we never had the power to do terrible things, the what heroism would it be to resist?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“If hope doesn’t mean anything to you when you lose, then it wasn’t ever a virtue in the first place.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“You are normal,” Drehy said. “Or rather, nobody is normal. Normal doesn’t exist. So if we slavishly try to dress ourselves to imitate it, all we’re really doing is becoming a different kind of abnormal—a miserable kind.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul

“The children, however, just accepted it. They raced through the closet. They played in it. They inhabited it. They denied paradox by swallowing it whole. Paradox, after all, is two irreconcilable truths. But children do not know the laws of the world well enough yet to fear the ramifications of the irreconcilable.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves