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.
BRENT WEEKSA man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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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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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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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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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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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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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Love is a madness. Love is Failer – Durzo Blint
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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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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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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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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