(Ron) did a smart thing, I think. He got rid of everybody and brought in a whole new staff, a bunch of us in our late 20s, kind of crazy and energetic. We were going to do whatever it took to turn the program around.


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Janala is a fool, just bright enough to be proud of the wits she has, but stupid enough to be unawar...
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Your ego doesn’t count as a separate individual, Shallan.
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In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, ‘...
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Drehy,” Kaladin said, “you are literally courting a man.”
“So?” Drehy said.
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The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you ...
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He came at me,” Adolin said, “in the training rooms, screaming that you’d found the killer. Sa...
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Love wasn’t about being right or wrong, but about standing up and helping when your partner’s ba...
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I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man
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I don’t hate you, Pattern,” Shallan said. “I hate the sword.” “But—” “The sword isn�...
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You want to change the world, Shallan. That’s well and good. But be careful. The world predates yo...
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He quivered on the ground his face pressed to the stone and didn’t rise.
“Did you… did y...
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If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art.
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The best indication of what human beings will do is not what they think, but what the record says si...
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Sequels always have to be bigger.
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Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing...
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Dalinar Kholin was a connoisseur of death.
Even since his youth, the sight of dead men had been...
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You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, th...
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Life was about momentum. Pick a direction and don't let anything—man or storm— turn you a...
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Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.
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What a surreal sensation, being back here, being treated like he was still the boy who had left for ...
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You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with c...
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The old Words must be spoken again.
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I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will ris...
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Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to s...
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Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero?
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To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the mos...
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The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but i...
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Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.
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NO MATING
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Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.
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The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, wh...
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There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...
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Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good ...
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I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith,...
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What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set asid...
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It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm...
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I wanted to move. I needed to move. But in those moments, I could more easily have lifted a s...
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Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting sati...
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That caravan looks as if it’s all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater.”
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Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his bo...
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Oh, thank you, I thought, feeling an overwhelming sense of relief. Dancing was stressful—but murde...
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Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't h...
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Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly fo...
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Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we pa...
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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...
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As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”
“Wow...,” I breathed.
She ...
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Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open.
"And he makes h...
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Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so yourse...
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You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?"
"I suppose."
"AR-15?"
"Ugh. AR-15...
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Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They'r...
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I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each...
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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...
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