Brandon Sanderson

"I don't want to make people mad. I just... Well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"

"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."

"I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff."

"People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs."

"Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe."

"Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them."

"...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become...."