How can one love the light and live in darkness?
BRENT WEEKSA 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.
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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There’s no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there’s something that still swells my chest. There’s magic in that…. It tells me that’s the way things are supposed to be.
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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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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Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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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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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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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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Love is a madness. Love is Failer – Durzo Blint
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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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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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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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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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