Arcanum Unbounded Quotes

“The original plan for this novella was for it to be 18,000 words. It ended up at around 40,000. Ah well. That just happens sometimes. (Particularly when you are me.)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“The woman looked up at Lift. "He's right about that, um..."
"Say it," Lift said.
"Your Pancakefulness."
"Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“What would it take?” she asked. “For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?” “It would take a miracle, obviously,” Silence said, picking up her knife. “Instead of just a coincidence.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“Whatever this man wanted, Kelsier’s instincts said that he shouldn’t be allowed to have it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“Shai’s uncle Won had taught her that being bested was a rule of life. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“He had been more complex than that. Every person was.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“You came all this way, leaving behind luxury, to eat some pancakes.” “Really awesome pancakes.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“Yes,” Wyndle said, “you should do just that! Let us pop over to the market and pick up a legendary, all-powerful weapon of myth and lore, worth more than many kingdoms! I hear they sell them in bushels, following spring weather in the east.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety. In this book, Gaotona found a rare work to rival that of the greatest painters, sculptors, and poets of any era. It was the greatest work of art he had ever witnessed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“Oh, hell," Kelsier said. "There's actually a God?"
"Yes."
Kelsier decked him.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“The empire simply was. The people suffered its rule because they were comfortable with its little tyrannies. Corruption was inevitable. You lived with it. It was either that or accept the chaos of the unknown.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“This is nice. Very roomy for a shack on a mountainside in the middle of a deadly jungle on an isolated island surrounded by monsters.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“Ey,” Lift called to him. “You still creepy, old man?” “I am the man I was made to be,” he said back.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“He had a lump of crusty earwax for a heart.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“What was wrong with that young man who answered the door?” Wyndle asked. “Dunno,” Lift said. “Some people are just born like that.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“People got so mad when she lost spheres. They were strange about money. Far too concerned with something that you couldn’t eat—though Lift figured that was probably the point of using spheres instead of something rational, like bags of food. If you actually traded food, everyone would eat up all their money and then where would society be?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“The more she thought of it, the more that luck seemed the opposite of being awesome. One was something you did; the other was something that happened to you no matter what you did. Course,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“So, we came all this way,” Wyndle said, “and tracked the most dangerous man we’ve ever met, merely so you could steal his breakfast.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“How about this?” the Drifter said. “We’ll have an insult battle.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“They got these pancakes here," she said, "with things cooked into them. Supposed to be super tasty, and they eat them during the Weeping. Ten varieties. I'm gonna steal one of each."
"You came all this way, leaving behind luxury, to eat some pancakes."
"Really awesome pancakes."
"Despite the fact that a deific Shardbearer is here-a man who went to great lengths to try to execute you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“The Azish liked to consider themselves grand, but they only plastered bronze or gold or something over all their buildings and pretended that was enough.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“Una vez, me diste una lección sobre la amistad. Tengo que devolverte esa lección, como último regalo. Tienes que saberlo, tienes que preguntártelo. ¿Cuánto de lo que has hecho era por amor y cuánto por demostrar algo?¿Que no te habían traicionado, superado, derrotado?¿Puedes dar una respuesta sincera, Kelsier?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

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― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“The concept of wayfinding through the lapping of waves is just one of those things that won’t leave me alone, and the ability to write about a character out on his own on the ocean—isolated in multiple ways—was intriguing to me.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“Even if that rival is the one who killed you?” Vathi asked. “The traps you set, the ways you try to interfere with one another…” “It is our way.” “That is an awful excuse,” she said, looking up at the tree. She was right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“She decided to be a fool anyway.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“He’d already killed one god. The second murder was always easier than the first.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“The floor is the Physical Realm, where that light pools. The sun is the Spiritual Realm, where it begins. This Realm, the Cognitive Realm, is the space between where that beam stretches.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“La pena puede ser una herramienta poderosa. Cada vez que haces sentir algo a alguien, tienes poder sobre él.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum ilimitado: La colección del Cosmere