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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Brent Weeks

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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Born Matter Mountain
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
Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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Bridge Bridges Remember
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
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
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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Flaws Multitudes Sin
My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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Surprising Twists Writing
A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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Boys Missing Target
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
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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Men Thinking Trying
When you don’t know what to do, do what’s right and do what’s in front of you. But not necessarily what’s right in front of you.
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Fronts Knows Necessarily
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Calling Hug Men
It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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Forgiveness Prayer Sin
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
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
The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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Giving Men Problem

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

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