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.
BRENT WEEKSThe 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’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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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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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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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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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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Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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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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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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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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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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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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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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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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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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