Quotes About Jasnah

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. My little Jasnah, insufferable and wonderful.

Brandon Sanderson

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

Brandon Sanderson

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

Brandon Sanderson

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

Brandon Sanderson

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

Brandon Sanderson

#10. 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

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

Brandon Sanderson

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Brandon Sanderson

#16. To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

Rumi

#17. 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

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

Brandon Sanderson

#19. You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

Edgar Bergen

#20. At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.

Jerry Della Femina

#21. Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

John Steinbeck

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

Brandon Sanderson

#23. Look up, get up and don't ever give up.

Michael Irvin

#24. The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

Clare Boothe Luce

#25. Dreamers remain dreamers if they never wake up.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. Fuck me, I love her.

Larissa Ione