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 WEEKSWhat people value in their books-and thus what they count as literature-really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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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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Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
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Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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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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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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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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..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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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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