Kim Gauthier

“Murder?” Pattern said, placing another soldier. He’d built a surprisingly tall pyramid. “Oh, you mean murder! Shallan is good at murder. Yes, mmmmm…” “Pattern,” she said, “please don’t say it that way.” “She is good,” Pattern corrected himself, “at making people who were once alive and threatening, unalive and unthreatening. Mmmm. Very good at it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“I am human,” the large beast said quietly.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“I ain’t grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End