Alethi Quotes & Sayings

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Most people that I know who go to church actually go there to twist the arms of God so that he can get all the discomfort away from them. — Sunday Adelaja

I feared he might be trying to grow a beard again. — Neal Stephenson

She wandered through the crowded feast hall, listening as wine greased tongues and dimmed minds. Her uncle Dalinar was in the full swing of it, rising from the high table to shout for the Parshendi to bring out their drummers. Jasnah's brother, Elhokar, hurried to shush their uncle - though the Alethi politely ignored Dalinar's outburst. All save Elhokar's wife, Aesudan, who snickered primly behind a handkerchief. Jasnah — Brandon Sanderson

I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell the rest of them to blow it out their ass. — Dennis Miller

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can't work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it. — John Goodman

All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer. — Bobby Bragan

Disease is a fact but not a truth; it is an experience but not a reality. — Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

If there was one thing the Alethi court enjoyed more than wine, it was gossip. — Brandon Sanderson

But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety, and now the Alethi elite danced with abandon. — Brandon Sanderson

Leadership is rarely about what we want, son. I think too few among the Alethi elite realize that fact. — Brandon Sanderson

I sense him smiling
and laughing and looking at me
with eyes of a thousand aborted children
coming back to rightfully
claim their life, to claim the earth. — A.P. Sweet

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face. — Patrick Swayze

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. — Oprah Winfrey

He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him. — Jennifer Donnelly

The old folktales from Mexico often have the same beginning. "One day a man met the devil in the road," or "The devil came upon a man in the desert." This is not an old story, but I am here to tell you, I met the devil in an orchard in December. He offered me gold; he gave me pleasure; he fooled me twice and then he set me on fire. — Elise Forier Edie

Children should live a wholesome and natural life and go about with a mussel in one corner of their mouths and a shrimp in the other instead of sweets. — Halldor Laxness