{"author":"Brandon Sanderson","author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson","total_quotes":290,"quotes":[{"text":"Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["food","lift","thieves"],"id":726,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["hoid","wit"],"id":791,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["adolin-kholin","prison"],"id":3685,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"I've never understood one thing: Why do all these megalomaniac dictators, secret societies, mad scientists, and totalitarian aliens want to rule the world? I mean really? Don't they know what a pain in the neck it is to be in charge? People are always making unreasonable demands of kings. 'Please save us from the invading Vandal hoards! Please make sure we have proper sanitation to prevent the spread of disease! Please stop beheading your wives so often; it's ruining the rugs!","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["leadership"],"id":10604,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"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?","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["brandon-sanderson","criticism","honesty"],"id":13182,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"...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....","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["honor","integrity","leadership","politics"],"id":16486,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["friendship","sand","survivors"],"id":18341,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["recovery","true-power"],"id":20916,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["belief","faith","religion"],"id":27429,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["cliff","fall","help","humor"],"id":28160,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":290,"pages":29,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}