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If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

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Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

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Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon ...more

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Cleaning the wound is often more painfulthan the cut itself.

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I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?

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To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

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Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."-Brandon Sand...more

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There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

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They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.

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I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But tha...more

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What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked.“I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said.“Have you known me to lie befor...more

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There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

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You said their prayer – is this the religion you believe in, then?" „I believe in them all.” Vin frowned. „None of them contradict each other?” Sazed ...more

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Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been bo...more

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Vin paused. "And you have all of these religions memorized?""As much as is possible," Sazed said. "Their prayers, their beliefs, their mythologies. Ma...more