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.
BRENT WEEKSIt had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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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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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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..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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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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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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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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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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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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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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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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