Top 100 Brent Weeks Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Brent Weeks

#1. **A Dedication from Brent Weeks to his older Brother**
For Kevin, because it's a big brother's job to make a little brother tough. What you taught me, I've needed. (But I never have been right since that dirt clod incident.)

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#2. You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.

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#3. You were broken years ago and you healed hunched. And now you're broken again and trying to heal even more hunched.

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#4. 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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#5. A whimsical choice, perhaps a dangerous choice, but a shadow should bear some resemblance to the shape that cast it.

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#6. Sometimes life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to

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#7. That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.

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#8. DON'T TOUCH MY HAIR!' she yelled.

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#9. Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

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#10. Sometimes lies are most necessary with our friends.

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#11. Truth doesn't depend on your belief in it.

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#12. Beyond that, I learned about visual adaptation - what a picture can say, and what it can't. A picture's worth a thousand words, but its vocabulary is limited. A picture's no sesquipedalian.

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#13. It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

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#14. It is in carrying heavier burdens than we think we can bear that we become stronger.

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#15. I don't know. I don't remember. What does it matter?

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#16. I shall return, it vowed. I shall return.

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#17. All power is a test.

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#18. Power is any action that results in consequences. But real power is action that results in the intended consequences.

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#19. 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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#20. You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

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#21. Analogies are lies grown-ups tell.

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#22. You'll fight. You'll die. And I'll miss you.

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#23. You have to be a little bad to make history.

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#24. Attack dolphins. What the hell was that? Dolphins were supposed to be nice.

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#25. It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.

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#26. Sometimes a seer could be a pain in the ass? Try always.

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#27. The beatings were a small price to pay for hope.

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#28. Non takuulam. I shall not serve.

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#29. It's easier to build a new culture on the graves of the dead than around the homes of the living.

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#30. Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

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#31. 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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#32. I oh wha ih eenz, idj," Vi said, though it was a lie.

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#33. Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

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#34. Weak men like humble women, especially great women who make them feel as inferior.

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#35. We each tend to think of our time as the end product of all that has come before, which is true, but we like to believe our time is therefore the pinnacle, rather than another pearl on the string.

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#36. 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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#37. Survivors are willing to make sacrifices.

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#38. By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

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#39. Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

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#40. You're amazing," Kylar said.
~I know.~
"Humble, too.

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#41. A man's greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

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#42. Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.

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#43. Come, the Devil's Highway awaits.

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#44. 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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#45. Analogies are lies grown-ups tell." "Why?

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#46. And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

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#47. 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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#48. Some things are bigger than your happiness.

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#49. Desperate men fight best.

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#50. But after you know a man or a woman like that - after you wear their skin and walk a few miles in it, you can't help but love them -

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#51. Durzo gazed into the frothy brown ale as if it held answers. It didn't,

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#52. Never tempt a man beyond what he can endure.

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#53. Ashes. Ashes, and blood, and nothing more.

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#54. A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

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#55. 'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.

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#56. Delayed justice was as bad as injustice.

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#57. Knowledge is a musket. You can use it only as a club, but will you? When your life is on the line?

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#58. The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster. I'm no god.

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#59. It wasn't love - it was commerce.

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#60. Even winning means nothing. We win because it's an insult to lose.

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#61. You may have won, Cenaria was saying, but your victory is no triumph. You can force me from my home, but you will not live in it. I will leave you nothing but scorched earth.

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#62. Others always pay for my failures.

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#63. Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

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#64. The only life you have the right to sacrifice for the greater good is your own.

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#65. 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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#66. Less weight and less strength just means you need to be smarter.

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#67. I am the stupidest person I have ever met.

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#68. You've got choices to make, but here's another hard truth: you can't be whatever you want to be. The list of things you'll never be is a long one
even if you do live forever.

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#69. I've taken lives, and I've taken my own life in my hands and trusted a friend with it. Yes, sir, I'd say that makes me a man."
"Neither makes you a man. The first makes you a killer. The second makes you a fool. Either may get you killed.

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#70. 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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#71. There is no hell but life, and death is worse.

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#72. 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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#73. The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

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#74. Highest marks of the day. And don't ever do it again.

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#75. A man who denies what is essential to his being is a man who drills holes in the cup of his own happiness.

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#76. 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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#77. and transition from one to the other. Scrape

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#78. The choice to give up bitterness is not easy, but it is simple: peace or poison. And don't wait until you feel like making it. You never will.

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#79. That they have learned to weep at war is no victory. That they know loss is no gain.

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#80. Azoth had learned that lesson. He didn't have to understand; he just had to obey.

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#81. It was the kind of beauty that made you shit your pants.

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#82. The man loved language the way a wife beater loves his wife.

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#83. Her body was more persuasive than a room full of scholars.

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#84. Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.

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#85. 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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#86. If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

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#87. 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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#88. Politics is ethics writ large.

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#89. Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

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#90. If reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith ... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

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#91. Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

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#92. There's a hope that empowers, and a hope that enfeebles. Don't confuse them.

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#93. To realize in an instant that you aren't going to have the life you'd hoped for, but not waste a moment complaining, instead acting instantly to save what good you can? That's more guts than I'd have had.

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#94. A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

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#95. 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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