Kelsier's Quotes

#1. It's always a dangerous thing for a writer to resurrect a character. It threatens to undermine the consequences in a story, and minimizes the risks characters take. At the same time, I knew Kelsier's story - in specific - was not yet finished. Readers sensed this. There was more to be told.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Whatever this man wanted, Kelsier's instincts said that he shouldn't be allowed to have it.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Huh, Kelsier thought. He holds the powers of creation in twain, a god among gods. And he's still a terrible liar.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. I have to do it, she thought, sitting in the red sunlight. There is a puzzle here - something to be solved. What was it Kelsier liked to say?
There's always another secret.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Glass broke and metal tools clattered to the ground.
"Have you any idea what all of that is worth?" Shezler growled, lowering his arm and advancing.
"Your soul, apparently," Kelsier whispered.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. At his neck, hanging outside his clothing, Demoux wore a necklace that bore a small silver spear: the increasingly popular symbol of the Church of the Survivor. It seemed odd to her that the weapon that killed Kelsier would become the symbol of his followers.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.

Gordon Korman

#10. Kelsier smiled. Gods, it appeared, could still fall for a classic misdirection con.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

George Orwell

#12. How do you do that?" Mennis asked, frowning.
"What?"
"Smile so much."
"Oh, I'm just a happy person.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. Kelsier would not back down. He would not let this thing intimidate him again. He'd already killed one god. The second murder was always easier than the first.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. Vin: I don't know
and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused.
Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Master the craft. Write lots, even if you never intend to do anything with it. Don't delete old, unpublished, or partial manuscripts. There are lots of occasions where you may be able to use some of that work. If the writing is strong, save it for later.

Eric Matheny

#16. Traitors."
"People," Marsh said. "People who were just trying to do the best with what life gave them."
"Well, I'm just doing the same thing," Kelsier said. "And, fortunately, life gave me the ability to push men like them off the tops of buildings.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is."
"And what is that?
"Style," Kelsier said.
Then he punched Ruin across the face.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

Brandon Sanderson

#19. You're late, Kell", Dockson said, still not looking up from his ledgers.
"I strive for nothing if not consistency" - Kelsier

Brandon Sanderson

#20. We women are a lot more powerful if we see ourselves as fighters on the same side. But it's easier to judge others - their choices and their bodies - than to think about the struggles we share.

Crystal Renn

#21. The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within..

Kabir

#22. Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. Oh, hell," Kelsier said. "There's actually a God?"
"Yes."
Kelsier decked him.
It was a good, clean punch, thrown from the shoulder while he brought his other arm up to block a counter strike.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. I am the one thing you can never kill. I am Hope.

Brandon Sanderson

#25. Don't use his name as an oath, Vin,' Kelsier said. 'Even blasphemy honors him - when you curse by that creature's name, you acknowledge him as your god.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. He was a man.Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.

Brandon Sanderson

#27. God: "There is no way out of this."
"That's a terrible attitude," Kelsier Said. "We'll never get anything done if you talk like that.

Brandon Sanderson

#28. Yes. Fortunately, before I died, I put a plan into motion. I can't remember it, but I'm certain that it was brilliant."
"You know, I've said something similar myself on occasion, after a night of drinking." Kelsier rubbed his chin. "I'm free too.

Brandon Sanderson

#29. Kelsier said haughtily. "What's this?" "From your brother," Dockson said, pointing at a large map laid across the desk. "It arrived this afternoon in the hollow of a broken table leg that the Canton of Orthodoxy hired Clubs to repair.

Brandon Sanderson

#30. Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

Colleen Haskell

#31. If there was one thing Kelsier was good at, it was lying to himself.

Brandon Sanderson

#32. Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.

Russell Simmons