Chris > Chris's Quotes

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
― Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers

“They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Truth can never be defeated, Sarene. Even if people do forget about it occasionally.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us
sick.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“God! Why did she insist on demanding from people what she knew they could never give her? Why did she insist on making the same mistakes over and over? Why was she fooled so easily every time? Because she wanted to be fooled.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends