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“It always amazes me, how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“You came on a raid the morning of your wedding?” the captain asked. The lawman, Waxillium Ladrian, stopped in the doorway. “In my defense, it wasn’t my idea.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

“Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity—that was how to get stuff done.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

“Home is people,” she says to Asael, softly. Asael blinks. “Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.” Heresmith”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“This is stonelore: Honor in safety, survival under threat. Better a living coward than a dead hero.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If he weren’t blind, that is. Dumb metaphor, I thought. I’ll have to work on that one. I have trouble with metaphors.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

“She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

“never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don’t get up for a third.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance