Quotes From "The Way Of Kings" By Brandon Sanderson

I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived. Brandon Sanderson

Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he raised his spear and threw himself off the end of the wooden platform, launching into the air above the cavernous void. Bridgemen cried out in dismay. Syl zipped about him with worry. Parshendi looked up with amazement as a lone bridgeman sailed through the air toward them. His drained, worn-out body barely had any strength left. In that moment of crystallized time, he looked down on his enemies. Parshendi with their marbled red and black skin. Soldiers raising finely crafted weapons, as if to cut him from the sky. Strangers, oddities in carapace breastplates and skullcaps. Many of them wearing beards. Beards woven with glowing gemstones. Kaladin breathed in. Like the power of salvation itself–like rays of sunlight from the eyes of the Almighty–Stormlight exploded from those gemstones. It streamed through the air, pulled in visible streams, like glowing columns of luminescent smoke. Twisting and turning and spiraling like tiny funnel clouds until they slammed into him. And the storm came to life again. Brandon Sanderson

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts. Brandon Sanderson

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished. Brandon Sanderson

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives."" And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?"" That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing. Brandon Sanderson

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong." determines what is right! " right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution. Brandon Sanderson

They didn’t speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring? Why was the most colorful part of people’s bodies–the brightness of their blood–hidden beneath the skin, never to be seen unless something went wrong? Brandon Sanderson

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and w Brandon Sanderson

A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known. Brandon Sanderson

It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there. Brandon Sanderson

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees. Brandon Sanderson

Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?"" I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation, " he said." She is a heretic."" She refused to join any of the devotaries because she did not believe in their teachings. Rather than compromise for the sake of appearances, she has been honest and has refused to make professions she does not believe. I find that a sign of honor. Brandon Sanderson

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Brandon Sanderson

You learned this, ” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“ Er…yes?” He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more. Brandon Sanderson

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts. Brandon Sanderson

Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. Brandon Sanderson

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. Brandon Sanderson

Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could managed the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable than a beggar? Sometimes I think that I am. The beggar knows much that the king can only guess. And yet who draws up the codes for begging ordinances? Often I wonder what my experience in life--my easy life following the Desolation, and my current level of comfort--has given me of any true experience to use in making laws. If we had to rely on what we knew, kings would only be of use in creating laws regarding the proper heating of tea and the cushioning of thrones. Brandon Sanderson

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible. Brandon Sanderson

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. Brandon Sanderson

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Brandon Sanderson

To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care. Brandon Sanderson

Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion."" Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here."" How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious." Well, " Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing."“ How's that a duel?”" He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about." Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose. . Brandon Sanderson

One can have a wit, but not a witless Brandon Sanderson

I hope to return. I’ll do so if I’m not killed. Probably will anyway. Brandon Sanderson

Does the king know you're back?"" Nope! I'm trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison, singing an ode to my magnificence."" That sounds… hard."" Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation."" I have no idea what you just said."" Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation. Brandon Sanderson

This lot won't suffer you forever. I wouldn't see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within you Wit.""Yes, He tasted quite delicious. Brandon Sanderson