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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.

Brent Weeks

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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Born Matter Mountain
It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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Guilty Innocent Should
It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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Forgiveness Prayer Sin
Light cannot be chained.
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Chained Happen Light
Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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Dream Lying Mean
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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Life Meaning Meaningless Value
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Calling Hug Men
You have to be a little bad to make history.
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Bad History Littles Make
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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Hours Moments Ugliness
The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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Giving Men Problem
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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Abiding Dream Shadow
..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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Kind Powerful Stupid
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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Definitions Obedience Power Request Said
You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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Alive Staying Alive
Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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Bridge Bridges Remember
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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Guarantees Magic Sacrifice Something Winning

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