Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.

Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.

At the core of these movies, Saw One and Saw Two, it's a very real situation. A guy cheats on his wife and didn't value what he had. It's the same thing in my story. Being a dad and playing someone whose last words to his son were 'go to hell'. I say to my son, the last thing I say is 'I love you'.

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.

I've never had something - like, you know, drunk people have tried to do that to me, and I instantly shut it off. I say, don't to this, dude; you'll feel terrible about this later. It'll be - I'll bring it up all the time; I'll make fun of you. Just save yourself the embarrassment and don't do it.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

What have we done to the world?....... Look what we've done.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

Women? I'm still working on the subject. I haven't finished my studies. I would say I'm so happy that they're around. This is the salt and pepper of life. This is what makes me wake up in the morning - even more than work, really.