Edgedancer Quotes

“The world ends tomorrow, but the day after that, people are going to ask what’s for breakfast.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“I want control,” she said, opening her eyes. “Not like a king or anything. I just want to be able to control it, a little. My life. I don’t want to get shoved around, by people or by fate or whatever. I just ... I want it to be me who chooses.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“She stuck her tongue out at him. A totally rational and reasonable way to fight a demigod.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“It is strange,” the man said. “People get such a small amount of time. So many I’ve known say it—as soon as you feel you’re getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“I will remember those who have been forgotten.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“It’s worse when they think they’re your friend. Gawx, the viziers. They make assumptions. They think they know you, then start to expect things of you. Then you have to be the person everyone thinks you are, not the person you actually are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“All right. Maybe I can get you one soul. Perhaps a tax collector...'cept they ain't human. Would they work? Or would you need, like, three of them to make up one normal person's soul? -Lift”
― Brandon Sanderson, Danzafilo

“What if everybody is frightened, and nobody has the answers?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“You couldn’t live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know who you were, and then they started to expect things from you. It was one step from there to being gobbled up.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“What good is seeking a greater law, when that law can be the whims of a man either stupid or ruthless?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“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, Edgedancer

“You're my pet Voidbringer, and no lies are going to change that. I got you captured. No stealing souls, now. We ain't here for souls. Just a little thievery, the type what never hurt nobody.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“He wasn’t so frightening, for a Voidbringer. He must have been like … the Voidbringer all the other ones made fun of for wearing silly hats. The one that would correct all the others, and explain which fork they had to use when they sat down to consume human souls.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“She’d built her life around not having to wait for anyone or anything.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“Being young was an excuse. A plausible justification”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“If you stay in the same place too long, then people start to recognize you. The shopkeepers learn your name. They smile at you when you enter, and already know what to get for you, because they remember what you need.”
“That’s a bad thing?”
She nodded, still staring at the sky. “It’s worse when they think they’re your friend. Gawx, the viziers. They make assumptions. They think they know you, then start to expect things of you. Then you have to be the person everyone thinks you are, not the person you actually are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“The tree slowly fell over, playing dead.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“Rich people, she decided, loved to stick with a theme.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“That lighta above, the lunks from the sky. I head loudin about it that was you, outsida, eh?
"Yeah"
The girl turned as if to leave, but then reconsidered and put a hand on lift's arm.
"You," the girl said to Lift. "Outsida?"
"Yeah."
"You listenin'?"
"I'm listenin'."
"People, they don't listen.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“He certainly was a strange Voidbringer. Come to think of it, she’d never seen him act the least bit interested in consuming someone’s soul. Maybe he was a vegetarian?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“as soon as you feel you’re getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“Give us three weeks, and we can prepare a detailed report!” “We ain’t got three weeks. We barely got three hours.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“Mistress, you could call me by my name.” “I could call you lotsa stuff,” Lift said. “Be glad I don’t got much of an imagination. Let’s go.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“She hadn’t dreamed, thankfully. She hated dreams. They either showed her a life she couldn’t have, or a life that terrified her. What was the good of either one?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“She met Darkness’s descending Blade with her own weapon. Not a sword. Lift didn’t know crem about swords. Her weapon was just a silvery rod. It glowed in the darkness, and it blocked Darkness’s blow, though his attack left her arms quivering.
Ow, Wyndle’s voice said in her head.
Rain beat around them, and crimson lightning blasted down behind Darkness, leaving stark afterimages in Lift’s eyes.
“You think you can fight me, child?” he growled, holding his Blade against her rod. “I who have lived immortal lives? I who have slain demigods and survived Desolations? I am the Herald of Justice.”
“I will listen,” Lift shouted, “to those who have been ignored!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“When one achieves immortality, one must find purpose beyond the struggle to live,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“Course, that didn’t mean luck didn’t exist. You either believed in that, or you believed in what those Vorin priests were always saying—that poor people was chosen to be poor, on account of them being too dumb to ask the Almighty to make them born with heaps of spheres.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“As pessoas têm um tempo tão curto. Muitos que conheci dizem isso - assim que você sente que está controlando as coisas, o dia termina, a noite cai e a luz se apaga.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer

“If you could see inside me,” Lift said, turning and walking backward so she faced the old man on the steps, “you wouldn’t say things like that.” “Because?” “Because. At least slums know what they was built for.” She turned and joined the flow of people on the street.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer