Quotes About Kholin

#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. 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

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

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Brightness Markal! What a disaster that hairstyle is; how brave of you to show it to the world

Brandon Sanderson

#5. 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

#6. And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

Desmond Dekker

#7. Something is either right or it's wrong," Dalinar said, feeling stubborn. "The Almighty doesn't come into it."
"God," Navani said flatly, "doesn't come into whether his commands are right or wrong."
"Er. Yes.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. How . . ." Dalinar said. "You fell into a chasm!"
"I fell face-first, sir," Kaladin said, "and fortunately, I'm particularly hard-headed.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.

Jay Leno

#11. Thence, even as he gazed, a tiny column of smoke rose straight up into the still air.

Kenneth Grahame

#12. It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

George Eliot

#13. A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive.

Zadie Smith

#15. Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Victoria Moran

#16. You can't be in Bridge Four. We're bodyguards for your own family. What are you going to do? Guard yourself?

Brandon Sanderson

#17. Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man's a prince. We can't storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it.

Brandon Sanderson

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

Brandon Sanderson

#19. Intuition is the gift of knowing, hearing, feeling, or seeing through our spiritual senses.

Catherine Carrigan

#20. Kaladin followed [Shallan]. What else could he do? Explain to Adolin? Yes, princeling. I let your betrothed wander off alone in the darkness to get eaten by a chasmfiend. No, I didn't go with her. Yes, I'm a coward.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. What are you doing here, bridgeboy?" Adolin hissed from within his helmet.
"Playing one of the ten fools."
Adolin grunted. "Welcome to the party.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms
when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow
he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. I can see what you're up to."
"Five foot six inches," Shallan said. "I suspect that's all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.

Brandon Sanderson

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

Brandon Sanderson

#25. A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.

Kelly Moran

#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. People think I know a lot about women. The truth is, I know how to get them, how to make them laugh, how to make them interested. I don't know how to keep them." He hesitated. "I really want to keep this one.

Brandon Sanderson

#28. Navani!" Dalinar shouted, pulling his horse to a slippery stop across the tarp from her. "I need a miracle!"
"Working on it," she shouted back.

Brandon Sanderson

#29. If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

Siri Hustvedt