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.
BRENT WEEKSMaybe 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.
More Brent Weeks Quotes
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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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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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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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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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How can one love the light and live in darkness?
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
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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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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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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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Light cannot be chained.
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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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My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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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’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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