The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation] Quotes

“Well,” Shallan said to the captain, blushing but still eager to speak, “I was just thinking this: You say that my beauty coaxed the winds to deliver us to Kharbranth with haste. But wouldn’t that imply that on other trips, my lack of beauty was to blame for us arriving late?” “Well … er …” “So in reality,” Shallan said, “you’re telling me I’m beautiful precisely one-sixth of the time.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“My father used to say that there are two kinds of people in the world. There are those who take lives. And there are those who save lives.

I used to think he was wrong. I thought there was a third group. People who killed in order to save.

I was a fool.

There is a third group, a big one, but it isn't what I thought. The people who exist to be saved or to be killed. the group in the middle. The ones who can't do anything but die or be protected. The victims.

That's all i am.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination...”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“He thought often about saving the bridgemen. And yet, as he considered, he realized that he often framed saving them in terms of saving himself. He told himself he wouldn’t let them die, because he knew what it would do to them if they did. When he lost men, the wretch threatened to take over because of how much Kaladin hated failing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“He stopped beside a rock outcropping, resting against it, causing grass to shrink away. He looked eastward, over the Shattered Plains. His home. His sepulcher. This life on them was ripping him apart. The bridgemen looked up to him, thought him their leader, their savior. But he had cracks in him, like the cracks in the stone here at the edges of the Plains. Those cracks were growing larger. He kept making promises to himself, like a man running a long distance with no energy left. Just a little farther. Run just to that next hill. The you can give up. Tiny fracturs, fissures in the stone.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another things I stole. Myself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind... the purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“He was actually glad to be alone with his silence and the remains of those who had died. These men hadn’t cared about the squabbles of those born with lighter eyes than they. These men had cared about their families or—at the very least—their sphere pouches. How many of them were trapped in this foreign land, these endless plateaus, too poor to escape back to Alethkar? Hundreds died each week, winning gems for men who were already rich, winning vengeance for a king long dead.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“One more try...

The men huddled in the barrack with barely a blanket to call their own. Frightened of the storm. Frightened of each other. Frightened of what the next day would bring.

One more try....

He thought of himself, crying at the death of a boy he hadn’t known. A boy he hadn’t even tried to help.

One more try.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Was she destined to get into an argument with everyone she met?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Adiós. Lamento no haberte insultado más.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Encontremos nuestro fin en un sepulcro hueco o en la zanja de un pobre, todos menos los Heraldos mismos deben cenar con la Vigilante Nocturna. Y, por tanto, ¿importa el destino? ¿O es el camino que emprendemos?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Viaje antes que destino.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Pues si ibas a asesinar a un hombre, tenía derecho a verte venir.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Dio la vuelta a su montura, trotó hacia el puente y saludó con un gesto agradecido a los hombres del puente. Eran el escalón más bajo del ejército, y sin embargo cargaban con el peso de los reyes.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Please, I promise not to respect you any longer!”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“I have been brought up to show respect to ardentsl"
"Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it when needed, and growth will flourish, Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell." His eyes twinkled.
Had an ardent-just servant of the Alrighty-just spoke of manure?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“I will protect those who cannot protect themselves”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“There was a certain power in that, a freedom. The freedom of not having to care.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any God's decree.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“I believe that my own morality is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution [from God].”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Demasiadas veces nos esforzamos mucho con lo que ingerimos por la boca, y mucho menos con lo que entra por nuestros ojos y oídos. ¿No te parece?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Recordamos los buenos tiempos y los malos tiempos, olvidando que la mayor parte de las veces ni son buenos ni son malos. Solo son.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Wrongness can be amusing. It keeps life interesting. If we were all right all the time, where would that leave us?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]