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 WEEKSA wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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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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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Light cannot be chained.
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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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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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Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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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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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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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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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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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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