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 WEEKSWill covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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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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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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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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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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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Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
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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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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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Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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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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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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