Skin Deep Quotes

“Well, when the fear of death seizes you—when the dark thoughts come—you stare the darkness right back, and you tell it, ‘I will not listen to you, for I am infinite Batmans.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Are you kidding? You just told her that an invisible man who tells you to kill people just showed up when you didn’t want him to.” “Not one of our smoothest interactions,” Tobias agreed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Well, when the fear of death seizes you – when the dark thoughts come – you stare the darkness right back, and you tell it, “I will not listen to you, for I am infinite Batmans.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Legion: Skin Deep

“Several pieces of me are very interested in gardening,” I said. “I just didn’t bring them along.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“I can’t let you make changes until I authenticate, sir,” the man said in the neutral, patient voice of one accustomed to talking on the phone all day to people who deserved to be strangled.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“That was a tall order for Ivy. Sarcasm was kind of her native tongue, though she was fluent in “stern disappointment” and “light condescension” as well. She was also a good friend. Well, imaginary friend.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don’t think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon . . .”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“This is going to be about zombies. I’m calling it now.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Apparently at I3, business meetings were supplied with plenty of Legos to accompany the conversation.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Keeping track of forty-seven hallucinations is tough enough. If I had to imagine their in-laws too, I just might end up going crazy.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“As Sylvia noticed me looking at her, she plastered on a smile as fake as red dye #6.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Not all of my missions involve terrorists or the fate of the world. Some are far more simple and mundane. Like locating a teleporting cat.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“tough, and square-jawed, J.C. is a cold-blooded killer. Or so he claims. I think it means he likes to murder amphibians.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Anything that is possible is actually reality, given infinity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“She was as crazy as the others. Her insanity just happened to align with reality.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Wait,” Dion said. “You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?” “I use the cards dealt to me.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Think about it,” I said. “The universe rolled its cosmic dice and ended up with you—a semi-random collection of atoms, synapses, and chemicals. Together, those create your personality, memories, and very existence. But if time continues forever, eventually that random collection will happen again. It may take hundreds of trillions of years, but it will come again. You. With your memories, your personality. In the context of infinity, kid, we will keep living, over and over.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“His phone chirped the sound of some bird.

"That's actually the call of an eagle," Tobias said. "Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon...”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“had forced him to buy Exeltec from me for another exorbitant sum, so I came away from this in a good enough position. The CDC failed to find evidence that Panos had released any kind of pathogen, and eventually determined that the note on Panos’s computer had been an idle threat, meant to send I3 into a panic. Earlier that morning, Dion had sent me a thank-you note from him and his mother for stopping the government from burning the body. I hadn’t yet told them I’d stolen this thumb drive. It contained the key, and a . . . second file. A small text document, also encrypted. We’d stared at it for a time before realizing that the key had been printed on the outside of the thumb drive itself. Chapter nineteen”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“I’m an Interdimensional Time Ranger.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“dimensions are infinite, and everything that can happen, has happened.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep

“Dressed in a white labcoat over jeans and a pink buttoned blouse, Liza was in her late fifties, and was tall enough that she was very tired of answering whether or not she’d played basketball in school. It was fortunate her clients were, for the most part, dead—as that was the only type of person who didn’t seem to bother her.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skin Deep