Jasnah Kholin Quotes

#1. Shallan's mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Jasnah was never wrong."
"This would be a storming bad time for her to break her record,

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

Manmohan Singh

#5. Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

Brandon Sanderson

#6. [ ... ] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex [ ... ]

Jane Austen

#7. Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?"
"I ... had trouble concentrating."
"So you came up on deck," Jasnah said, "to sketch pictures of young men working without their shirts on. You expected this to help your concentration?

Brandon Sanderson

#8. I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

Raquel Welch

#9. A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith.

Fulton J. Sheen

#11. Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope
than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when
it is long deferred.

Statius

#12. What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

Pierre Loti

#14. But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.

Jamie Tworkowski