Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
BRENT WEEKSHow can one love the light and live in darkness?
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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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Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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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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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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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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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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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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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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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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Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
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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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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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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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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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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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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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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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.
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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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