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.
BRENT WEEKSThe 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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Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
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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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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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It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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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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Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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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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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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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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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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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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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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Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.
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How can one love the light and live in darkness?
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Light cannot be chained.
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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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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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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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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Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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