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.
BRENT WEEKSYou’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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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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My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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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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How can one love the light and live in darkness?
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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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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Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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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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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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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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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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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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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
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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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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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Light cannot be chained.
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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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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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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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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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