You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
BRENT WEEKSWhen 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.
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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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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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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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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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 God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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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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What people value in their books-and thus what they count as literature-really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
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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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Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth’s air.
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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Light cannot be chained.
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