Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
BRENT WEEKSIt’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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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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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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Light cannot be chained.
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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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Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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Put on some armor. Just remember what’s armor and what’s you, so when it’s time to take it off, you can.
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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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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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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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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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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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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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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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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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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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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.
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