Brent Weeks Quotes

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Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

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When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

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Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

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Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

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Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

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The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn't know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn't dared to be.

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Life is nothing in itself. It's a place marker that proves who's winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it's an insult to lose. The ends don't justify the means. The means don't justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice.
Durzo Blint speaking

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Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

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If reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

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Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

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The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. Have you ever done this before? Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

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Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.

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One doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

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It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

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Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

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A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.

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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

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Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.

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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

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There was a nice dilemma. How does one interject into a polite conversation, "By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."?

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Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

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If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

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Because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

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You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

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If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? Well, I can. I'm not so sure about Doll Girl.

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Why do you keep saying incarnations like I'm some kind of god? It wasn't a great question, but the real questions were so big that Kylar didn't even know how ask them. You are worshipped in a few remote areas where your master wasn't very careful about showing the full extent of his powers. What?!

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