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.
BRENT WEEKSWords were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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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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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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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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How can one love the light and live in darkness?
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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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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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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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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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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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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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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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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 God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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