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Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed."
"I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?"
"They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.


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BRANDON JENNER In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a s...
BRANDON STANTON Aim higher. Stay focused.
BRANDON ADAMS I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the hea...
BRANDON BOYD I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an ...
BRANDON STANTON Megan looked at me and blushed. A blush looked really good on her. Of course, so would soup, mud, or...
BRANDON SANDERSON I couldn’t help grinning at the sight of her. Megan, in turn, raised a nine-millimeter square at m...
BRANDON SANDERSON I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You’re l...
BRANDON SANDERSON What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked.
“I’d thin...
BRANDON SANDERSON When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry tha...
BRANDON FLOWERS Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he rai...
BRANDON SANDERSON You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanish...
BRANDON SANDERSON When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come fr...
BRANDON STANTON Don’t do anything stupid."
"Don’t worry," I whispered over the line, "I’m an expert on st...
BRANDON SANDERSON The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats ...
BRANDON WEBB I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile a...
BRANDON BOYD I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to th...
BRANDON BOYD Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excite...
BRANDON BOYD I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character matur...
BRANDON ROUTH I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think ...
BRANDON STANTON At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to t...
BRANDON FLOWERS Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to produci...
BRANDON WEBB The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.
BRANDON WEBB I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really ha...
BRANDON STANTON As I've gotten older, I've wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It&#...
BRANDON FLOWERS Sometimes it is very useful to have a reputation for being a reclusive, amoral jerk.
BRANDON SANDERSON I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't thi...
BRANDON SANDERSON I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were A...
BRANDON FLOWERS He felt a swelling of pride. Ridiculous, of course. He had endangered the kindgdom — how would peo...
BRANDON SANDERSON There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spir...
BRANDON BOYD Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king […] Whit...
BRANDON SANDERSON A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.
BRANDON JONES Same old, same old. Nothing special, but he's absolutely ready.
BRANDON MACNAUGHT Next weekend is the weekend we have to wrestle perfectly. We didn't wrestle perfectly this weekend, ...
BRANDON MACNAUGHT It's one of those things where you don't worry about individual wins and losses, you worry about the...
BRANDON MACNAUGHT If it isn't broke, don't fix it. You want to prepare the same. ... I haven't seen any added pressure...
BRANDON MACNAUGHT I would assume every coach's ultimate goal is to get a guy to states. I've been fortunate to have a ...
BRANDON MACNAUGHT To do it in this section is quite amazing and it hasn't really sunk in yet. To think that's he the f...
BRANDON MACNAUGHT Previous studies have measured general pain and heavy backpacks. But, they have not correlated backp...
BRANDON MACIAS Even at 10 percent [of body weight], the pressures were still high, and that hasn't been quantified ...
BRANDON MACIAS It seems like the right shoulder becomes loaded more.
BRANDON MACIAS The backpack should be positioned high on the back.
BRANDON MACIAS I had two months of not doing anything except wonder how my arm was going to feel. But I'm back thro...
BRANDON LYON