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Brent Weeks

It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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Better Much Soft
Light cannot be chained.
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Chained Happen Light
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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Dolls Girl Secret
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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Greatest Illusion Men Treasure
A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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Boys Missing Target
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
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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Fronts Knows Necessarily
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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Coward Hesitated Passive Poison Would Be
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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Compared Dying Easy Moments
If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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Almost Anything Busy Get
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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Broken Real Simple
Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
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Another Men Sword Wells
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
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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Hours Moments Ugliness
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Calling Hug Men
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.
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Done Dukes Pretending Trying

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