Top 100 Brent Weeks Quotes
#1. You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.
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#2. That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.
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#3. Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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#4. Sometimes lies are most necessary with our friends.
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#5. It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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#7. Every community is a gull gliding over a sea of spite, eager for carrion, all too ready to steal, and all too quick to squawk when stolen from.
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#9. A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but he'll never forgive one who goes whoring for him.
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#10. Weak men like humble women, especially great women who make them feel as inferior.
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#11. 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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#13. What happens when you strip away all the masks a man wears and you find not a face beneath them but nothing at all?
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#14. 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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#15. Ashes. Ashes, and blood, and nothing more.
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#16. A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
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#17. The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster. I'm no god.
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#19. Even winning means nothing. We win because it's an insult to lose.
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#20. Bring me his head when they're finished. But before you give him to the sodomites, cut his cock off and bring me his sack for a purse. I want him to bleed to death as they fuck him.
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#21. I didn't think you were much for religion," Gavin said, trying to inject a bit of levity.
"Why would you think that? I speak with Orholam constantly."
" 'Orholam, what did I do to deserve this?' " Gavin suggested.
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#22. The horror is having profound power in one hand and a strong moral sense in the other and absolutely no foundation to stand on.
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#23. The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
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#24. 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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#25. That they have learned to weep at war is no victory. That they know loss is no gain.
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#26. Azoth had learned that lesson. He didn't have to understand; he just had to obey.
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#27. Her body was more persuasive than a room full of scholars.
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#28. Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.
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#29. I'm not dreaming this, am I?" he asked.
Dehvi lifted an eyebrow. "There's only one way to know for sure," he said.
What's that?"
Go piss in the woods. If you feel wet and warm afterward, wake up.
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#30. If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.
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#31. When you know a man's secrets, you have power over him. A man's secret is his weakness. Every man has a weakness, no matter ...
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#33. Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
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#34. A man's face is the surface of a pond, reflecting the sky, reflecting the trees, reflecting whatever is the object of his gaze and his love, the reflection hiding his depths. But when the wave passes, in the swell, for an instant, you can see what lies beneath the waters.
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#35. We all make choises,and then we bear the consequences for those.
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#36. Messy emotional issues could wait until later, or never.
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#37. There was something being settled here, and if it was primal and barbaric and petty and stupid, it was still important.
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#38. 'The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it's a story of normal brothers - who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances.
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#39. I warned him, Kylar. She was a lovely, careless girl. The kind of woman born without a heart, so she couldn't imagine breaking anyone else's.
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#40. Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.
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#41. Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.
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#42. This is how tyrants fall. By destroying their people, they destroy themselves.
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#43. Is that all your life is?" Kylar asked, finally looking up. "Tests and challenges?"
"My life? That's all life is.
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#44. This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.
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#45. Ecause 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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#46. I was a bad child. Fortunately, I've come a long way since then. Now I'm a bad man.
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#47. Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.
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#48. It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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#49. I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
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#50. You are a god clad in flesh, Gaelan Starfire, and you're more fragile than you know. Be ware.
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#51. Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary.
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#52. There is no cheating in war; there are only survivors and victims.
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#53. As long as I'm in your heart, I'll never truly die.' Ha! Please don't keep me trapped in your heart after I die, girl. I get claustrophobic.
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#54. They were mirrors to each other. Gwinvere Kirena would have been perfect for him - if he could love what he saw in the mirror.
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#55. I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
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#56. Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's.
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#57. And on a difference of three minutes, all of history changes.
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#58. Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
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#59. despite the passage of time, it wasn't getting any better.
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#60. After a while, with nothing to lose, I'll only able to win.
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#61. You will find no answers here, just choices.
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#62. Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.
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#63. The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
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#64. As the Strategist had said, if you want your enemy to fight to the death, cut off all escape; if you want your enemy to retreat, leave a path open.
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#65. You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.
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#66. Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.
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#67. A king made choices for other people based on information they didn't have. That was the burden of rule.
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#68. 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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#70. We're victims of our own refined tastes.
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#72. A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.
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#73. Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.
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#74. We so easily convince ourselves that what is good for me is also good for others.
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#75. 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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#76. I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say ... *shakes head* Nah, I just can't do it. Although when I come across a brilliant line, I do think, Can't touch this. And when I'm worried I'm overwriting a scene, I think, Hammer, don't hurt 'em.
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#77. After years of knowing her, a woman's beauty shouldn't be able to reach straight into a man's chest and squeeze the breath out of him. Especially not when he could never have her.
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#78. She looked at the door, and wondered if they meant it. Could she leave now? "We've no cowards among us," the man said. "Good." Teia wanted to shout, Wait! I think I might be a coward! Can I think on it a bit longer?
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#79. Choose in haste and regret at leisure.
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#80. Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.
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#81. Ore choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you could do anything, so you probably did nothing, frozen with indecision.
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#82. I don't ask you to like reality. I only ask you to be strong enough to face it.
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#83. Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?"
"Why?" Kip asked, quiet, hopeful.
"Because you're an arrogant little shit.
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#84. Magic requires will, but words shape will, turn it, direct it, reflect it from one target to another.
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#85. Escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.
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#86. One doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.
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#87. My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
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#88. I was once the avatar of retribution. Now I just try to be polite.
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#89. I'm asking you to make an adult decision. Are you ready to die, maybe alone, far from home, with no one even knowing what a hero you were? I can't even promise that your lives or your deaths will accomplish victory - Ironfist, p156
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#90. I'm going to explain this to you in terms you can understand: shut up.
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#91. They seized him, and of all the acts of will in a life famed for them, it was by far the greatest that he resisted them not.
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#92. I am simply competent ... Not a leader except when leadership is lacking.
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#93. They made it so that we can't change it from within. They made it so we must kill to break it. If we be monsters, we're monsters made in their image.
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#94. Perhaps great men are content with marrying a woman who is not their equal, but we great women ... Our equals are rare enough in the first place, and then most of those we do find have married twits.
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#95. Going into battle without her grays would be like going into battle with her hair unbound.
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#96. My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good? ...
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#97. This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.
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#98. To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.
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#99. What happens if you do nothing, nothing, there's a price and a terrible freedom to that
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#100. Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.
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