I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)
Brandon SandersonTo live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.
Brandon SandersonToo many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.
Brandon SandersonVin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.
Brandon Sanderson