It is a very wet and windy part of the world. Throw in some growlers and a couple of Russian fishing fleets and it is an obstacle course that will provide for some interesting weeks and very nervous times.


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I don’t hate you, Pattern,” Shallan said. “I hate the sword.” “But—” “The sword isn�...
BRANDON SANDERSON
You want to change the world, Shallan. That’s well and good. But be careful. The world predates yo...
BRANDON SANDERSON
He quivered on the ground his face pressed to the stone and didn’t rise.
“Did you… did y...
BRANDON SANDERSON
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...
BRANDON SANDERSON
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...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Dalinar Kholin was a connoisseur of death.
Even since his youth, the sight of dead men had been...
BRANDON SANDERSON
You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, th...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Life was about momentum. Pick a direction and don't let anything—man or storm— turn you a...
BRANDON SANDERSON
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 ...
BRANDON SANDERSON
You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with c...
BRANDON SANDERSON
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...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to s...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero?
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.
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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...
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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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?
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The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things ...
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