Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
Brandon SandersonVin shook her head. "No, not me. I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things." OreSeur watched her for a moment, then settled back down. "Regardless," he said, "you are not my worst master. That is, perhaps, a compliment among our people.
Brandon SandersonThere are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.
Brandon SandersonI was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
Brandon SandersonYou're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.
Brandon SandersonWhat kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.
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