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To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

Brandon Sanderson
Children, Feelings
Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.377, Macmillan

I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.

Brandon Sanderson
Children, Moving, Ideas
Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.393, Macmillan

Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He’d done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.

Brandon Sanderson
Children, Hands, Use
Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1248, Macmillan

[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child." Page 193

Brandon Sanderson
Hurt, Children, Blessed
Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.237, Macmillan

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

Brandon Sanderson
Children, Men, Age
Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.416, Macmillan

I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.” “To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance.” Abraham sounded amused. “You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.

Brandon Sanderson
Children, Boys, Men
Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Reckoners Series”, p.129, Delacorte Press

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