The Way of Kings, Part 1 Quotes

“A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“Cowardice can imitate heroism if given no where to flee”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“Actually, no," Shallan said. "I'm just fond of hyperbole."
"I'm not," he said. "It's a real bastard to spell"
"Kabsal!”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don't change. They are corrupt now.They were corrupt then.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“Can’t you just relax,” she asked him, “just for a little while?”
“The rules—”
“Everyone else—”
“I cannot be everyone else!” Dalinar said, more sharply than he intended. “If I ignore our code and ethics, what am I, Navani? The other highprinces and lighteyes deserve recrimination for what they do, and I have let them know it. If I abandon my principles, then I become something far worse than they. A hypocrite!”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“I'm always truthful as well. So full of truth, in fact, that sometimes it squeezes the lies right out my lips. There isn't a place for them inside, you see.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“Pero las expectativas eran como la porcelana fina. Cuanto más fuerte te agarrabas a ellas, más probable era que se rompiesen.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“Szeth-son-son-Vallano wore white on the day he was to kill a king.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“A storm—whether from a person or the sky—was something you could react to. But this suffocation, this slow and steady dousing of life…That was far, far worse.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“La tradition est le témoin aveugle dont ils se servent pour nous condamner,”
― Brandon Sanderson, La Voie des rois, tome 1

“Selfishness followed by courage. She was nearly as surprised by the latter as she had been by the former. Neither was something she often associated with who she was. But she was coming to realize that she hadn't known who she was. Not until she left Jah Keved and everything familiar, everything she'd been expected to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“And so if I were to read only these silly romances you presume that my ambition can handle, my mind would grow sick as surely as your sister-in-law's stomach.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“It's better to choke on wine than on dishwater.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“I understood in a moment of stillness,' Litima read. 'Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“ ښه، نو ایا منزل مهم دی؟ یا مهمه خو د ورتلو لار ده؟ زه وایم چې هېڅ بریا دومره مهمه نه وي لکه څومره چې هلته د رسېدو لار وي. موږ د منزلونو مخلوق نه یو. منزل ته د سفر لاره موږ ته نوې بڼه رابښي. زموږ کلکې شوې پښې، د سفر بارونه په وړلو وړلو زموږ غښتلې ملاوې، د ژوند نوې تجربې په لېدو لېدو زموږ تازه شوې خوشالې سترګې. په پای کې باید په جار ووایم چې په دروغجنو لارو هېڅ ښه نشي ترلاسه کېدې. لامل دا چې زموږ د هستۍ اصل ماده په بریاوو کې نه ده، خپلو کړو لارو کې ده.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1