Quotes From "The Hero Of Ages" By Brandon Sanderson

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable. Brandon Sanderson

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are. Brandon Sanderson

I ask of you your lives, ” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor–your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.“ Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated! ” There was a brief pause. us! . Brandon Sanderson

Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them. Brandon Sanderson

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before. Brandon Sanderson

What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash. Brandon Sanderson

That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you. Brandon Sanderson

I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going. Brandon Sanderson

She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone Brandon Sanderson

Somehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that was where she'd been raised. Not a woman of the court, though she appreciated the beauty and the grace of the balls. Someone else. Someone she liked. Brandon Sanderson

He didn’t recruit me, ” Cett pointed out. “I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco.”“ I wish I cared enough to apologize, ” Elend said, staring at them. Brandon Sanderson

I don't have much time for stories, " Vin said." Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days. Brandon Sanderson

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important. Brandon Sanderson

The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived. Brandon Sanderson

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it. Brandon Sanderson

He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be. Brandon Sanderson

I ask of you your lives, ” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor–your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.“ Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated! ” There was a brief . Brandon Sanderson