Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation] Quotes

“You will love. You will hurt. You will dream. And you will die. Each man's past if your future.
'Then what is the point?' I asked. 'If all has been seen and done?'
'The question,' she replied 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You not pick the destination, only the path.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Tradition? Kadash, did I ever tell you about my first sword trainer?

Back when I was young, our branch of the Kholin family didn't have grand monasteries and beautiful practice grounds. My father found a teacher for me from two towns over. His name was Harth. Young fellow, not a true swordmaster -- but good enough.

He was very focused on proper procedure, and wouldn't let me train until I'd learned how to put on a takama the right way. He wouldn't have stood for me fighting like this. You put on the skirt, then the overshirt, then you wrap your cloth belt around yourself three times and tie it.

I always found that annoying. The belt was too tight, wrapped three times -- you had to pull it hard to get enough slack to tie the knot. The first time I went to duels at a neighboring town, I felt like an idiot. Everyone else had long drooping belt ends at the front of their takamas.

I asked Harth why we did it differently. He said it was the right way, the true way. So, when my travels took me to Harth's hometown, I searched out his master, a man who had trained with the ardents in Kholinar. He insisted that this was the right way to tie a takama, as he'd learned from his master.

I found my master's master's master in Kholinar after we captured it. The ancient, wizened ardent was eating curry and flatbread, completely uncaring of who ruled the city. I asked him. Why tie your belt three times, when everyone else thinks you should do it twice?

The old man laughed and stood up. I was shocked to see that he was terribly short. 'If I only tie it twice,' he exclaimed, 'the ends hang down so low, I trip!'

I love tradition, I've fought for tradition. I make my men follow the codes. I uphold Vorin virtues. But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Some days, it seemed you couldn't break Kaladin Stormblessed with all the stones on Roshar. Then one of his men would get wounded, and you'd see him crack.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.
Trembling, bleeding, agonized, Dalinar forced air into his lungs and spoke a single ragged sentence.
"You cannot have my pain.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“I tried my best to hide this, the Stormfather said.
"So we could continue living a lie?"
It is, in my experience, the thing men do best.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“When the situation seems hopeless you need Lift:

“Relax, grandpa. Steal the rock. I can do that.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Face after face. Life after life. Overpowering, intoxicating, alive. Breathing, and crying, and laughing, and being. So many hopes, so many lives, so many dreams.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“You cannot have my pain.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“I remember you. We talk about you every night when we burn prayers. So you will be safe. Fighting bad men.

I'd prefer to be safe from the good ones too.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“There was a deeper mystery beyond that, a wisp of somehing she'd glimpsed while intertwined with Re-Shephir. It made Shallan wonder if this spren wasn't merely trying to understand humankind, but rather searching for something it itself had lost.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Finally, I will confess my humanity, I have been named a monster and do not deny those claims. I am the monster that I fear we all can become.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“They may have taken your freedom, but they took our minds.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Monstrous terrors from the mythological past, enemies of all that was right and good. Destroyers who had laid waste to civilisation countless times.
They were playing cards.”
― brandon sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“He slammed both hands together.
And combined three realms into one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Like a child, it grows the more you feed it.”
“Like a fashionable dress, it can be fetching in youth, but looks particularly bad on the aged. And unique though its properties may be, stupidity is frighteningly common. The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“That wasn’t so uncommon a feeling for him. He felt good lots of days. Trouble was, on the bad days, that was hard to remember. At those times, for some reason, he felt like he had always been in darkness, and always would be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“And is … mercy such a bad thing, aboshi?”

“Not bad; merely chaotic. If you look through the records in this hall, you will find the same story told again and again. Leniency and mercy. Men set free despite crimes, because they were good fathers, or well-liked in the community, or in the favor of someone important.
Some of those who are set free change their lives and go on to produce for society. Others recidivate and create great tragedies. The thing is, Szeth-son-Neturo, we humans are terrible at spotting which will be which. The purpose of the law is so we do not have to choose. So our native sentimentality will not harm us.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Mmm, Patten said as sword in her hand. MMMMMMM.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Mmm, Patten said as sort in your hand. MMMMMMM.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“The need for clean clothing outlived disasters. The end of the world could come, but that would only mean more bloodstains to wash.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“How hard can it be to learn to fly? Skyreels do it all the time, and they are ugly and stupid. Most bridgemen are only one of those things.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Taravangian did not believe in any religion, for they were unwieldy things, designed to fill gaps in human understanding with nonsensical explanations, allowing people to sleep well at night, granting them a false sense of comfort and control and preventing them from stretching further for true understanding...”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Be wary of ANYONE who claims to be able to see the future.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“The longer you love the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to love without failure is to be of no use to anyone.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]