Quotes from Oathbringer

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero?”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone.
But that does not mean that I walked alone.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Ten spears go to battle," he whispered, "and nine shatter. Did the war forge the one that remained? No, Amaran. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“One can believe in a story without believing it happened.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don’t know.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Life was about momentum. Pick a direction and don't let anything—man or storm— turn you aside.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with complicated beliefs, who does not accept everything you are told. You decide how you are defined. Don’t surrender that to them. They will gleefully take the chance to define you, if you allow it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“You want to change the world, Shallan. That’s well and good. But be careful. The world predates you. She has seniority.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Drehy,” Kaladin said, “you are literally courting a man.”
“So?” Drehy said.
“Yeah, what are you saying, Kal?” Skar snapped.
“Nothing! I just thought Drehy might empathize….”
“That’s hardly fair,” Drehy said.
“Yeah,” Lopen added. “Drehy likes other guys. That’s like … he wants to be even less around women than the rest of us. It’s the opposite of feminine. He is you could say extra manly.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“As long as you keep trying, there's a chance. When you give up? That's when the dream dies.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Love wasn’t about being right or wrong, but about standing up and helping when your partner’s back was bowed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Your name is Lift, right?"
"Right."
"And your order?"
"More food.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Pattern, you’re to be our chaperone tonight.” “What,” Pattern said with a hum, “is a chaperone?” “That is someone who watches two young people when they are together, to make certain they don’t do anything inappropriate.” “Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as . . . dividing by zero?”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it flees—and yet the more of it you obtain, the less you understand about it!”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“Life was so much harder, but potentially so much more fulfilling, when you found the courage to choose.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

“If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Oathbringer

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