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• Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

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  Cute, Hurt, Party

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.

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  Thinking, Neighbor, Figures

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.163, Macmillan

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• It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found." "The truth?" Sazed said. "No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.

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  Sound, Found, Said

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.623, Macmillan

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• All right," Spook said. He reached to the ground, scooping up a pile of ash. "Let's just rub this into your clothing and on your face...." Breeze froze. "I'll meet you back ath the lair," he finally said.

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  Ashes, Faces, Your Face

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.308, Macmillan

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• The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.

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  Men, Tyrants, Lazy

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “The Rithmatist”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.

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  Clever, Book, Goats

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.224, Macmillan

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• Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?

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  Ham, Paraplegics, Furious

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1940, Macmillan

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• Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.

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  Dark, Long, Hustle

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• 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.

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  Soldier, Devil, Together

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1970, Macmillan

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• For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

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  Simple, Wish, Acknowledgement

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.2065, Macmillan

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• I've seen Steelheart bleed

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  Brandon Sanderson (2013). “Steelheart”, p.57, Delacorte Press

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• Vin 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.

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  People, Good Person, Compliment

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.899, Tor Books

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• And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

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  Solitude, Betray

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

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  Jobs, Perfect, Firsts

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• I 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.

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  Thinking, Want, Stuck

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.255, Macmillan

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• I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

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  Protect

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance”, p.988, Macmillan

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• She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.

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  Wall, Cities, Use

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1718, Macmillan

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• Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

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  Kings, Fall, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Hero of Ages: Mistborn Book Three”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

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  Real, Nice, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.226, Macmillan

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• I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

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  Religious, Fashion, Reading

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.' Kelsier leaned forward again. 'But, you weren't born an aristocrat. You're not noble, Vin. You don't have to play by their rules--and that makes you even more powerful.

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  Powerful, Mean, Play

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Final Empire: Mistborn Book One”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.

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  Thinking, People, Poison

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• Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

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  Running, Princess, Army

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.387, Macmillan

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• That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

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  Funny Things, Arriving, Said

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.236, Macmillan

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• Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

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  Impossible Things, Rough, Knows

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Shattered Lens: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.51, Macmillan

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