Brent Weeks - The Way of Shadows (2008)

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

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

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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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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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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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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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