Cytonic Quotes

“Sometimes it's too easy to forget the things you should remember — and far too easy to remember the things you really should forget.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“All people must accept that we have the potential to do terrible things. It is part of seeing our place in the universe, our heritage, and our natures. But in that acceptance we gain strength, for potential can be refused. Any hero who could have been a monster is more heroic for the choices he or she made to walk another road.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“I could be afraid, then become courageous. I could be small-minded, then come to understand. I could be selfish. Then move beyond it. I could start as human, then allow myself to become something more.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“I’m not exactly a “there are nuances to this situation” type of girl. I’m more of an “if it’s still moving, you didn’t use enough ammunition” type of girl.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“stories say something. About us, and about where we came from. They’re a reminder that we have a past, a history. And a future.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“You look just fine."
"Ah, 'just fine.' Exactly what a woman loves to hear."
"I'm sorry," he said. "I meant to say that you look like a barbarian who just finished killing her seventeenth rabid tiger to make a necklace out of their incisors.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“I’m a collection of stories stuffed into a brain with no context, trying so very hard to simply keep going.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Get better. Learn to accept that sometimes what you feel isn’t invalid, but that it doesn’t mean you have to act according to those feelings either.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Evolution doesn’t ‘try’ to do anything,” M-Bot said. “But like it or not, you are the pinnacle of its work. All evolutionary pressures throughout all the ages among your species have resulted in you.”

“Bet it feels embarrassed,” I said”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Spensa,” M-Bot said, hovering along beside me, “I am not enthused by my first experiments in self-determination. My chronometer details that since my awakening, I’ve spent a frightening amount of my time lost, pouting, or being chased by interdimensional monsters.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“You will not distract me from my current purpose, adversary. Though you have fought admirably, I will defeat you, then compose poetry for your funeral.” “This…um…isn’t to the death, Hesho.” “I will defeat you,” he said in the same exact tone, “and compose poetry for your retirement party.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Because every path we walk changes us, Spensa,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“...we shouldn't be required to keep giving until we'd been wrung out. That wasn't love.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Children in the future were going to insist my adventures were too outlandish—and therefore I wasn’t an actual historical person, but one that was obviously made up, like Gilgamesh or David Bowie.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“See? One step at a time. You can do this. I can do this. Whatever it takes.” He nodded by wobbling his drone up and down. “Okay!” he said. “Whatever it takes. My! That feels good. To at least pretend we’re in control! I like it. Is this how you feel all the time?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Okay, I could deal with this. I could accept this. Deal with this, brain!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Jorgen!” I shouted. “Fly! You’re in the middle of a firefight, idiot!” “I’m trying! It’s a little distracting to have your ship suddenly be haunted by the ghost of your not-dead girlfriend!” He steered the ship in a precise evasive pattern. I melted a little. Girlfriend? Was that how he thought of me? I mean, we’d kissed. Once. But…I didn’t think it had been formalized or anything. I hadn’t even brought him any dead orc carcasses, which I was pretty sure was the way the stories said to show a guy you wanted to go official.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Poems don’t deserve numbers,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“After living with the enemy,” I admitted, “I learned it wasn’t so simple. I didn’t discover that their cause was just, mind you. Only that most of them weren’t evil. They were merely people. Following, by accident, someone who was evil.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“I told you that I understood crazy,” Chet said. “I was wrong. Thank you for the master class.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“You cannot be defined by your questions. Only by what you do with them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“However," he continued, "duty should not be accepted without question. Duty can be a motive, but should not be an excuse.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“How was I going to tell my boyfriend that half of me was now an interdimensional eldritch abomination from outside time and space? At the very least, was there maybe a less silly way of wording that?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Enjoying danger sounds like an evolutionary problem,” M-Bot said. “Shouldn’t you find things fun when they’re safe?” “Who knows?” I said. “I don’t think evolution was trying to create me. I just kind of happened.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Maybe it doesn’t matter what he thinks. It’s hard to feel that, but I can say it. That feels like a different kind of lying. One that’s not all untrue.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“One did not act so cheekily nonchalant by accident;”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Sometimes it’s too easy to forget the things you should remember—and far too easy to remember the things you really should forget.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“I was Spensa, and my soul was fire.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“She was humble enough to take direction in order to achieve her goals.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“Well, little in life is absolutely certain”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic