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“As was often the case, the most outspoken man was the least discerning.” (Elantris Quotes)
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“Definitely not—you optimists just can’t understand that a depressed person doesn’t want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don’t shove where a pat would be sufficient.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“I’m from southern Arelon, Princess,” Ahan said, reaching for some more clams. “To us, round is beautiful. Not everyone wants their women to look like starving schoolboys.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“It’s honestly a wonder that writing groups produce writers at all, instead of walking insecurities raised entirely in echo chambers of bad advice.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“It’s beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“Just because you’ve had misfortune in your past doesn’t mean you have to give up on your future.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“One cannot seperate truth from actions…Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“Pain lost its power when other things became more important”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you’re always planning something.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“They say they give their women more freedom, but there’s still the impression that the freedom was theirs to ‘give’ in the first place.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“Those people gave in to their pain because they couldn’t find purpose—their torture was meaningless, and when you can’t find reason in life, you tend to give up on it.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“To 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 Sanderson
Elantris
“Truth can never be defeated, Sarene. Even if people do forget about it occasionally.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“You will be surprised how much more profitable an independent man is than a slave who thinks of nothing more than his next meal.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
“You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.”
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
