Brandon Sanderson Elantris Quotes

#1. Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon sanderson(Elantris)

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."
-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Brandon Sanderson

#3. To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.
Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Brandon Sanderson

#4. The strong lines of the woman's
face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching
her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?

Brandon Sanderson

#5. You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

Betty Ford

#6. Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.

Richard Dawkins

#7. Elantris (Sanderson, Brandon) - Your Highlight on page 74 | Location 1453-1453 | Added on Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:19:01 AM You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

Anonymous

#8. Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better - a member of a community where every individual was vital.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

David Farland

#10. Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#11. If you want to interest people, make them think. If you want to inspire people, make them feel.

Ron Kaufman

#12. Ten years was not enough. Stone should
not crumble after just a decade of neglect. The filth should not have piled up so quickly - not with so few inhabitants, most of whom were incapacitated. It was as if Elantris were intent on dying, a city committing suicide.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation ... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.
Eternity ended ten years ago.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. My lady, don't you think you might be over-extending yourself? You've decided to confront the gyorn, liberate the court women from masculine oppression, save Arelon's economy, and feed Elantris. Perhaps you should just let this man's subterfuge go unexplored.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

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#16. I sometimes feel that I'd like to talk about it. Then I find it's better if I don't.

Noel Streatfeild

#17. Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.

Oswald Chambers

#18. At night, when all melted into a uniform blackness, Hrathen could almost see Elantris's grandeur.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

Brian Tracy

#20. Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. I have brought many artifacts back with me from the steppe. My favourite is a 90-year-old Kazakh saddle decorated with silverwork in traditional motifs. It symbolises the deep relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian Steppe.

Tim Cope

#22. While every new fantasy author is hailed as unique, new, and different, Brandon Sanderson's ELANTRIS does indeed provide an absorbing adventure in a unique, different, and well-thought-out fantasy world, with a few nifty twists as well.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#23. 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

#24. I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.

John Caudwell

#25. Did I hear your correctly, my dear?" Ahan asked with a shaky voice. "You're going to go into Elantris?"
"Yes." Sarene said.
"I need something to drink," Ahan decided, unstoppering his wine flask.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. Some authorities believe that one prosperous thought is more powerful than a thousand failure thoughts; and that two prosperous attitudes steadily held and expressed are more powerful than ten thousand failure attitudes!

Catherine Ponder

#27. Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?"
-Brandon Sanderson
(Elantris)

Brandon Sanderson

#28. Different is not always a good thing.

Christina Diaz Gonzalez

#29. The task is the same in every generation: If God's Word is to be heard, we who love it must stand in its defense.

James R. White

#30. In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

Penn Jillette

#31. I must think of something foolproof for a fool.

Aristophanes

#32. All sorts of things can happen when you're open to new ideas and playing around with things.

Stephanie Kwolek

#33. I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.

Brandon Sanderson