Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
BRENT WEEKSDying 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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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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It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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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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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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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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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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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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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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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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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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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 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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