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Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6) QUOTES

Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6) QUOTES

1 " Mmm, Patten said as sword in her hand. MMMMMMM. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

2 " The need for clean clothing outlived disasters. The end of the world could come, but that would only mean more bloodstains to wash. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

3 " When the situation seems hopeless you need Lift:

“Relax, grandpa. Steal the rock. I can do that. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

4 " You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

5 " You will love. You will hurt. You will dream. And you will die. Each man's past if your future.
'Then what is the point?' I asked. 'If all has been seen and done?'
'The question,' she replied 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You not pick the destination, only the path. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

6 " Face after face. Life after life. Overpowering, intoxicating, alive. Breathing, and crying, and laughing, and being. So many hopes, so many lives, so many dreams. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

7 " The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

8 " You cannot have my pain. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

9 " The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.
Trembling, bleeding, agonized, Dalinar forced air into his lungs and spoke a single ragged sentence.
"You cannot have my pain. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

10 " The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

11 " I tried my best to hide this, the Stormfather said.
"So we could continue living a lie?"
It is, in my experience, the thing men do best. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

12 " We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

13 " The longer you love the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to love without failure is to be of no use to anyone. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

14 " That wasn’t so uncommon a feeling for him. He felt good lots of days. Trouble was, on the bad days, that was hard to remember. At those times, for some reason, he felt like he had always been in darkness, and always would be. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

15 " Mmm, Patten said as sort in your hand. MMMMMMM. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

16 " And is … mercy such a bad thing, aboshi?”

“Not bad; merely chaotic. If you look through the records in this hall, you will find the same story told again and again. Leniency and mercy. Men set free despite crimes, because they were good fathers, or well-liked in the community, or in the favor of someone important.
Some of those who are set free change their lives and go on to produce for society. Others recidivate and create great tragedies. The thing is, Szeth-son-Neturo, we humans are terrible at spotting which will be which. The purpose of the law is so we do not have to choose. So our native sentimentality will not harm us. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

17 " Be wary of ANYONE who claims to be able to see the future. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

18 " Taravangian did not believe in any religion, for they were unwieldy things, designed to fill gaps in human understanding with nonsensical explanations, allowing people to sleep well at night, granting them a false sense of comfort and control and preventing them from stretching further for true understanding... "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)

19 " How hard can it be to learn to fly? Skyreels do it all the time, and they are ugly and stupid. Most bridgemen are only one of those things. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)