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Live life like a leaf, flow in the breeze, and let only the future choose when it's your time to fall.


Thomas Sanderson

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ORSON SCOTT CARD Boring people live boring lives.
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ALEXIS OCHOA GRACE Is the dignity to expel the opinions and breath and live like the breeze of a cold wind.
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BRANDON SANDERSON To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the mos...
BRANDON SANDERSON The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but i...
BRANDON SANDERSON Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.
BRANDON SANDERSON NO MATING
BRANDON SANDERSON Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.
BRANDON SANDERSON The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, wh...
BRANDON SANDERSON There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good ...
BRANDON SANDERSON I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith,...
BRANDON SANDERSON What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set asid...
BRANDON SANDERSON It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm...
BRANDON SANDERSON I wanted to move. I needed to move. But in those moments, I could more easily have lifted a s...
BRANDON SANDERSON Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting sati...
BRANDON SANDERSON That caravan looks as if it’s all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater.”
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BRANDON SANDERSON Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his bo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Oh, thank you, I thought, feeling an overwhelming sense of relief. Dancing was stressful—but murde...
BRANDON SANDERSON Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't h...
BRANDON SANDERSON Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly fo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we pa...
BRANDON SANDERSON There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so." BRANDON SANDERSON Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasna...
BRANDON SANDERSON As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”
“Wow...,” I breathed.
She ...
BRANDON SANDERSON Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open.
"And he makes h...
BRANDON SANDERSON Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so yourse...
BRANDON SANDERSON You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?"
"I suppose."
"AR-15?"
"Ugh. AR-15...
BRANDON SANDERSON Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They'r...
BRANDON SANDERSON I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each...
BRANDON SANDERSON You've never heard of bagpipes?" Cody asked, sounding aghast. "They're as Scottish as kilts a...
BRANDON SANDERSON One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, i...
WILLIAM SANDERSON Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?"
"I consider...
BRANDON SANDERSON We are forecast overnight frost and minus two, so we need to have a look in the morning and take it ...
JAMES SANDERSON Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orph...
BRANDON SANDERSON Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
BRANDON SANDERSON The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things ...
BRANDON SANDERSON But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.
BRANDON SANDERSON