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.
BRENT WEEKSA man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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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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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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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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Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.
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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.
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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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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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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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 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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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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It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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