How can one love the light and live in darkness?
BRENT WEEKSYou’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.
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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Put on some armor. Just remember what’s armor and what’s you, so when it’s time to take it off, you can.
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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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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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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 have to be a little bad to make history.
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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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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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Light cannot be chained.
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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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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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It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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Love is a madness. Love is Failer – Durzo Blint
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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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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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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My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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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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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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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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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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Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
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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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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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