I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.
Brandon SandersonHe smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.
Brandon SandersonShe loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she-- along with others-- had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.
Brandon SandersonI was ten,โ I said. โGive me a little credit.โ โTo a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respectโbut not credit. Or life insurance.โ Abraham sounded amused. โYou are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.
Brandon Sanderson