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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.

Brent Weeks

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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Men Months Way
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
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Flaws Multitudes Sin
It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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Better Much Soft
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
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
You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.
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Alive Staying Alive
Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
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Dream Lying Mean
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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Dark Evil Simple
A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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Boys Missing Target
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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Book Doe People
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Calling Hug Men
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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Definitions Obedience Power Request Said
..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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Kind Powerful Stupid
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
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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Hours Moments Ugliness
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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Born Matter Mountain

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