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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.

Brent Weeks

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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Book Doe People
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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Hours Moments Ugliness
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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Done Dukes Pretending Trying
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
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Calling Hug Men
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
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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Flaws Multitudes Sin
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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Life Meaning Meaningless Value
Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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Believe Delusional People
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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Dad Funny Memories
..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
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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Compared Dying Easy Moments
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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Guarantees Magic Sacrifice Something Winning
You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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Alive Staying Alive
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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Greatest Illusion Men Treasure
The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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Giving Men Problem

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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