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.
BRENT WEEKS..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.
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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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My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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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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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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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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Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
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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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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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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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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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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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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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Light cannot be chained.
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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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