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 WEEKSHow can one love the light and live in darkness?
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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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It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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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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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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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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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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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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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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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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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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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Light cannot be chained.
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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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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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