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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.

Brent Weeks

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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Dark Evil Simple
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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Life Meaning Meaningless Value
You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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Alive Staying Alive
A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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Boys Missing Target
..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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Kind Powerful Stupid
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Calling Hug Men
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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Flaws Multitudes Sin
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.
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Definitions Obedience Power Request Said
You have to be a little bad to make history.
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Bad History Littles Make
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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Greatest Illusion Men Treasure
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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Coward Hesitated Passive Poison Would Be
If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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Free Meaningless Say Yes
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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Armor Remember Some
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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Dolls Girl Secret
Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
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Another Men Sword Wells
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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Abiding Dream Shadow

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