Warbreaker Quotes

“You don’t have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences, if you must. But don’t pity me for my faith. And don’t presume that you’re better, just because you believe something different.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Your way would have involved making several more corpses. Well, I am a sword, Nightblood said with a mental huff. Might as well stick to what you’re good at.…”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.” Blushweaver”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Blushweaver sighed. “You avoid thinking, you avoid me, you avoid effort...is there anything you don’t avoid?” “Breakfast.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“She had to stop judging people. But was that possible? Wasn’t interaction based, in part, on judgments? A person’s background and attitudes influenced how she responded to them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Don't make too many waves until you're ready to strike. Don't appear too innocent, but don't appear too smart either. Be average.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword.” She raised an eyebrow. “Sharp as hell,” Lightsong said, “but lacking a point.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“The God King’s superiority was arbitrary, much like Lightsong’s divinity— both part of a grand game of make-believe. But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“The answer, then, wasn't to stop judging. It was to hold those judgments as mutable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“You think he'll live?' Tonk Fah asked.
'He just fell out the third-story window, plummeting toward certain doom,' Denth said. 'Of course he'll live!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“And are you going to explain why you consider competing with me to be the most sincere form of compliment?”
“Of course I am,” Lightsong said. “My dear, have you ever known me to make an inflammatorily ridiculous statement without providing an equally ridiculous explanation to substantiate it?”
“Of course not,” she agreed. “You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.”
“I am rather exceptional in that regard.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Sometimes, when you stepped in something foul, the only thing to do was stop walking and make the effort to clean it off.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“You’re too untrusting, Susebron wrote. I keep telling you. My priests are good people. She regarded him flatly, catching his eyes. Except for removing my tongue, he admitted.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Like it or not, you are a part of the workings of this kingdom—and you produce effects even if you stay in bed. If you do nothing, then the problems are as much your fault as if you had instigated them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren’t really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy the pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Hoid looked up, smiling. “I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn’t know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died. But that is unimportant.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“That is sarcasm,” Susebron said. “She is quite fond of it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“They all want to be involved, but nobody wants to be responsible”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“I like cutting off toes,” Tonk Fah noted.
“That’s different,” Denth said. “You wouldn’t do it simply because your contract ran out, would you?”
“Nah,” Tonk Fah said. “Toes is toes.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“This, she thought, taking a deep breath, is going to be exceptionally embarrassing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“How can she believe?” Vivenna said. Denth shrugged. “Seems like a good enough religion to me. I mean, you can go and see her gods. Talk to them, watch them shine. It isn’t all that tough to understand.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“He met Lightsong’s eyes. “You are a god. To me, at least. It doesn’t matter how easily you can be killed, how much Breath you have, or how you look. It has to do with who you are and what you mean.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“- J'imagine qu'elle ne vous a pas interdit de laisser entrer d'écureuils dans le batiment ?
- D'écureuils, Votre Eminence ? demanda la femme.
- Excellent dit Chanteflamme”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“just”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Unknowing ignorance is preferred to informed stupidity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Perhaps she could leave if she managed to save up enough money. That was hard, almost impossible. Every time she got a coin, she spent it on food. She couldn’t help herself. Nothing else seemed to matter.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“you don’t understand a man until you understand what makes him do what he does. Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker