Top 38 Shallan Davar Quotes
#1. I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
Yuri Milner
#2. Storms, woman," [Kaladin] said. "I don't know what to make of you."
"Preferably not a corpse."
"I'm surprised someone hasn't already done that.
Brandon Sanderson
#4. Truth is individual."
"What? No it's not. Truth is ... it's Truth. Reality."
"Your truth is what you see," Pattern said, sounding confused. "What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.
Brandon Sanderson
#5. I seek the truth," Shallan said. "Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.
Brandon Sanderson
#6. The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"
"The only honest things I can say to you are insults.
Brandon Sanderson
#7. I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.
Willem Dafoe
#8. If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.
Toba Beta
#9. I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
Brooke Burke
#10. Brightness," the man said as she stepped up to him, "we aren't what you think we are."
"No," Shallan replied. "You aren't what you think yourselves to be.
Brandon Sanderson
#11. 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
#12. I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.
Brandon Sanderson
#13. Brightness ... I believe you stray into sarcasm."
"Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it,screaming at the top of my lungs.
Brandon Sanderson
#14. For us, the pressure comes from internal matter of having recorded eight records.
Davey Havok
#15. In a world where you can't open your eyes, isn't a blindfold all you could ever hope for?
Josh Malerman
#16. Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
Brandon Sanderson
#17. Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.
Brandon Sanderson
#18. Had not history always been an inhumane, unscrupulous builder, mixing its mortar of lies, blood and mud?
Arthur Koestler
#19. I probably shouldn't mock our family. House Davar is distinctive and enduring."
Jushu raised his cup. Wikim nodded sharply.
"Of course," she added, "the same could be said for a wart.
Brandon Sanderson
#20. 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
#21. I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.
Paul Pierce
#23. Please," she whispered, sounding more frantic. "Don't leave me down in these chasms alone."
He smiled wryly. "Is it really this hard for you to let me win one single argument?"
"Yes!
Brandon Sanderson
#24. It's not a lie," Shallan said, "if everyone understands and knows what it means."
"Mm. Those are some of the best lies.
Brandon Sanderson
#25. Sexy is good as long as it's not the main recipe. It's an ingredient. I would not appear in a leotard in a video if I [did] not have other dimensions.
Shakira
#26. It is beautiful because it could have been. It should have been.
Brandon Sanderson
#27. Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into a party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant.
Trevanian
#28. Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.
Kathryn Orzech
#29. When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.
Shirin Ebadi
#30. 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
#32. You have quite the clever tongue on you!"
"I've never actually had someone's tongue on me," Shallan said, turning a page and not looking up, "clever or not. I'd hazard to consider it an unpleasant experience."
"It ain't so bad," Gaz said.
Brandon Sanderson
#33. Can something be "almost" an accident?' Pattern asked, genuinely curious.
Brandon Sanderson
#34. 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
#36. When did you get so peppy?" she shouted.
"Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't."
"Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while," she snapped. "If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!
Brandon Sanderson
#38. The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
Brandon Sanderson
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