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 WEEKSWhy 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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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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How can one love the light and live in darkness?
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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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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My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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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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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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Light cannot be chained.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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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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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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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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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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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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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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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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..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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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 are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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