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It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Brent Weeks

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
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
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
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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Life Meaning Meaningless Value
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
..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
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Calling Hug Men
Light cannot be chained.
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Chained Happen Light
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
My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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Surprising Twists Writing
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
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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Greatest Illusion Men Treasure
Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
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Empty Life Worthless
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
You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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Alive Staying Alive

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