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I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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You have quite the clever tongue on you!"
"I've never actually had someone's tongue on me," Shallan said, turning a page and not looking up, "clever or not. I'd hazard to consider it an unpleasant experience."
"It ain't so bad," Gaz said. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
The sensation - it's not sorrow, but something deeper - of being broken. Of being crushed so often, and so hatefully, that emotion becomes something you can only wish for. If only you could cry, because then you'd feel something. Instead, you feel nothing. Just ... haze and smoke inside. Like you're already dead. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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Truth is individual."
"What? No it's not. Truth is ... it's Truth. Reality."
"Your truth is what you see," Pattern said, sounding confused. "What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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I seek the truth," Shallan said. "Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
I wasn't complaining', Pattern complained. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Storms, woman," [Kaladin] said. "I don't know what to make of you."
"Preferably not a corpse."
"I'm surprised someone hasn't already done that. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"
"The only honest things I can say to you are insults. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
I can see why we need fellows who know how to light fires," Bluth said. "But I don't see why we need people to use fancy words."
"Shhhh," Shallan said. "Don't say that so loudly. If the lighteyes hear, they might stop wasting their time making up new words, and instead start interfering with the business of honest men. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Please," she whispered, sounding more frantic. "Don't leave me down in these chasms alone."
He smiled wryly. "Is it really this hard for you to let me win one single argument?"
"Yes! ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Brightness ... I believe you stray into sarcasm."
"Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it,screaming at the top of my lungs. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you'd be accustomed to it by now."
He grunted. "Be careful, girl. You wouldn't want to accidentally insult a man."
"The last thing I'd want to do is accidentally insult you, Vathah," Shallan said. "To think that I
couldn't manage it on purpose if I wanted! ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Words are where most change begins. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
That caravan looks as if it's all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater."
"Did you just insult the princess's weight?" Tyn asked, aghast.
Storms! She was good. She actually managed to produce angerspren with the remark.
Well, nothing to do but soldier on.
"I am offend!" Shallan yelled.
"You have offended Her Highness again!"
"Very offend!"
"You'd better apologize."
"No apologize!" Shallan declared. "Boots! ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
It is beautiful because it could have been. It should have been. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
I'd rather walk these chasms with a compulsive murderer than you. At least then, when the conversation got tedious, I'd have an easy way out."
"And your feet stink," [Shallan] said. "See? Too early. I can't possibly be witty at this hour. So no arguments." She hesitated, then continued more softly. "Besides, no murderer would agree to accompany you. Everyone needs to have some standards, after all. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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Shallan's mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
It's not a lie," Shallan said, "if everyone understands and knows what it means."
"Mm. Those are some of the best lies. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
I probably shouldn't mock our family. House Davar is distinctive and enduring."
Jushu raised his cup. Wikim nodded sharply.
"Of course," she added, "the same could be said for a wart. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening? ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
I can see what you're up to."
"Five foot six inches," Shallan said. "I suspect that's all I will ever be up to, unfortunately. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Brightness," the man said as she stepped up to him, "we aren't what you think we are."
"No," Shallan replied. "You aren't what you think yourselves to be. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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This is insanity!"
"No, this is scholarship! ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
I understood where I had come from: from a dreary tangle of sadness and pretense, of longing, absurdity, inferiority and provincial pomposity, sentimental education and anachronistic ideals, repressed traumas, resignation, and helplessness. Helplessness of the acerbic, domestic variety, where small-time liars pretended to be dangerous terrorists and heroic freedom fighters, where unhappy bookbinders invented formulas for universal salvation, where dentists whispered confidentially to all their neighbors about their protracted personal correspondence with Stalin, where piano teachers, kindergarten teachers, and housewives tossed and turned tearfully at night from stifled yearning for an emotion-laden artistic life, where compulsive writers wrote endless disgruntled letters to the editor of Davar, where elderly bakers saw Maimonides and the Baal Shem Tov in their dreams, where nervy, self-righteous trade-union hacks kept an apparatchik's eye on the rest of the local residents, where cashiers at the cinema or the cooperative shop composed poems and pamphlets at night. ~ Amos Oz
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Yet if she returned home without trying every avenue, could she face her brothers? They depended on her. For once in her life, someone needed Shallan. That responsibility excited her. And terrified her. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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Shallan sat down on the plush, white bed, and sank almost down to her neck. What had they made the thing out of? Air and wishes? It felt luxurious. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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It frightens me," Shallan said, "because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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Your body is a temple respect it, and it will bless you ~ Shiamak Davar
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Jasnah was different. She gave Shallan a topic and the freedom to pursue it as she wished. Jasnah offered encouragement and speculation, but nearly all of their conversations turned to topics like the true nature of scholarship, the purpose of studying, the beauty of knowledge and its application. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Then be wise about it. There are two kinds of important men, Shallan. There are those who, when the boulder of time rolls toward them, stand up in front of it and hold out their hands. All their lives, they've been told how great they are. They assume the word itself will bend to their whims as their nurse did when fetching them a fresh cup of milk.
Those men end up squished.
Other men stand to the side when the boulder of time passes, but are quick to say, 'See what I did! I made the boulder roll there. Don't make me do it again!'
These men end up getting everyone else squished."
"Is there not a third type of person?"
"There is, but they are oh so rare. These know they can't stop the boulder. So they walk beside it, study it, and bide their time. Then they shove it-ever so slightly- to create a deviation in its path.
These are the men who actually change the world. And they terrify me. For men never see as far as they think they do. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Please," Shallan said to the sphere. "I need you to become fire."
Pattern buzzed, speaking with a new voice, interpreting the sphere's words. "I am a stick," he said. He sounded satisfied.
"You could be fire," Shallan said.
"I am a stick."
The stick was not particularly eloquent. She supposed that she shouldn't be surprised.
"Why don't you become fire instead?"
"I am a stick."
"How do I make it change?" Shallan asked of Pattern.
"Mm . . . I do not know. You must persuade it. Offer it truths, I think?" He sounded agitated. "This place is dangerous for you. For us. Please. Speed."
She looked back at the stick.
"You want to burn."
"I am a stick."
"Think how much fun it would be?"
"I am a stick."
"Stormlight," Shallan said. "You could have it! All that I'm holding."
A pause. Finally, "I am a stick."
"Sticks need Stormlight. For . . . things . . ." Shallan blinked away tears of fatigue.
"I am - "
" - a stick," Shallan said. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Shallan Davar quotes by Brandon Sanderson
What think you? Can beauty be taken from a man? If he could not touch, taste, smell, hear, see ... what if all he knew was pain? Has that man had beauty taken from him?"
"I ... " What did this have to do with anything? "Does the pain change day by day?"
"Let us say it does," the messenger said.
"Then beauty, to that person, would be the times when the pain lessens. Why are you telling me this story?"
The messenger smiled. "To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way. Tell me, what is the most beautiful thing you can imagine?"
...
"I see," the messenger said softly. "You do not yet understand the nature of lies. I had that trouble myself, long ago. The Shards here are very strict. You will have to see the truth, child, before you can expand upon it. Just as a man should know the law before he breaks it. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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Practice," Shallan said. "I should suspect that is how everyone learns, eventually. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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Actually, no," Shallan said. "I'm just fond of hyperbole."
"I'm not," he said. "It's a real bastard to spell"
"Kabsal! ~ Brandon Sanderson
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Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts. ~ Brandon Sanderson
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Love is like a classical melody." Shallan grinned. "If you end your performance too quickly, your audience is disappointed? ~ Anonymous
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You have no idea what you're saying." "I know," Shallan said. "I'm ignorant. There's a simple cure for that." She ~ Brandon Sanderson
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You're still human," Shallan said, reaching across, putting her hand on Navani's knee. "We can't all be emotionless chunks of rock like Jasnah."

Navani smiled. "She sometimes had the empathy of a corpse, didn't she? ~ Brandon Sanderson
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