Jasnah's Quotes

#1. The other one knelt and rammed a long, thin knife right into Jasnah's chest. Shallan heard it hit the wood of the floor beneath the body.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. I know this about celebrity (fame). Glory fades away. It's fickle. It comes and goes.

Adolph Caesar

#3. That's the thing about the broken ones - they're never too far beyond repair, even though it might seem that way. They just need a little glue and the right pair of hands to stick 'em back together.

Carmen Jenner

#4. Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends
her mysterious ends that often lie hidden
are sometimes endowed with a vast will to loving, with an endless capacity for suffering also, which must go hand in hand with their love. p 146

Radclyffe Hall

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

Brandon Sanderson

#6. When we are young," Jasnah said, "we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Marion Cotillard

#8. I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'

Margarita Levieva

#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. We should not forget Adam Smith's perspicuous observation that the "masters of mankind" - in his day, the merchants and manufacturers of England - never cease to pursue their "vile maxim": "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people.

Noam Chomsky

#11. Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Brandon Sanderson

#12. I never claimed he was not," Jasnah said. "I merely claimed that I do not accept him as God, nor do I feel any inclination to worship him.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. My little Jasnah, insufferable and wonderful.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. I love you. I honestly love you.

Olivia Newton-John

#15. Jasnah had spoken of her feelings for precisely that reason.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. Jasnah sniffed. Your tutors were idiots. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change, Shallan.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. 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

#18. It's hardly early," Jasnah said, gliding forward. It seemed obvious to her that Gavilar and Amaram had ducked out to find privacy for their discussion. "This is the tiresome part of the feast, where the conversation grows louder but no smarter, and the company drunken.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. Humour is the shortest road from one person to another.

Georges Wolinski

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

Brandon Sanderson

#22. Football really was my salvation in high school. For some kids it's art. For some it's music. For me, it was strapping on those pads, yanking that helmet over my head, and getting out there with the team.

Rudy Ruettiger

#23. Atheism is not a disease, Your Majesty," Jasnah said dryly. "It's not as if I've caught a foot rash.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Dennis Quaid

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

Brandon Sanderson

#26. 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

#27. You learned this," Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, "from a book."
"Er ... yes?"
He looked back at the picture. "I need to read more.

Brandon Sanderson

#28. 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

#29. Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Albert Camus