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Brent Weeks quotes
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.
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
Do you know what punishments I’ve endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men’s most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn’t tolerate my existence.
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
The perfect killer has no conscience.
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
The perfect killer has no identity.
— Brent Weeks, Shadow’s Edge
Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
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.
— Brent Weeks
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.
— Brent Weeks, Shadow’s Edge
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
— Brent Weeks, The Black Prism
Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city’s most accomplished artist.
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. – Durzo Blint
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
Your Majesty, ” Durzo said gravely. “A man of your stature’s cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears.” – Durzo Blint
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city’s most accomplished artist – Durzo Blint
— Brent Weeks
Love is a madness. Love is Failer – Durzo Blint
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
I’m afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we’ve made it all but certain.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
…Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
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.
— Brent Weeks
Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?” “Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopeful. “Because you’re an arrogant little shit.
— Brent Weeks, The Black Prism
It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?…
— Brent Weeks, Shadow’s Edge
He is terribly bright; he is handsome; he is charming; and you have spoiled him horribly. In other words, he has all the makings of a true monster.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
Every act intends some good.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
You’re a great man, but only when seen from afar.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
Yes, ” Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. “Kylar thinks… Kylar fears that he’s a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He’s not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
..More 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.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
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.
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come.
— Brent Weeks, Shadow’s Edge
Durzo cleared his throat. “I’ve got bad news… Life being unfair and all that…””Oh, great. What is it?” [replied Kylar]”Luc Graesin? Kid you died on the wheel to save?””It was more for Logan than for Luc, but what about Luc?””Hanged himself, ” Durzo said….”Are you joking? After what I did for him? That asshole!
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
Dorian said, ‘If you do the right thing twice, it will cost you your life. ‘ Blint said, ‘There are things more valuable than life.’ The count said, ‘You can’t pay for all you’ve done. But you aren’t beyond redemption. There’s always a way out. And if you’re willing to make the sacrifice, the God will give you the chance to save something priceless.
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
…escaping Neph’s magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
He kissed her. And she kissed him. And it was infatuation, and it was hunger, and it was longing to be loved, and it was an all-consuming fire so hot it devoured worry and loneliness and fear and time and being and thought itself. They kissed, embracing, flying, and for a hundred heartbeats, there was no war, no death, no pain, nothing hard, nothing terrible, nothing but warmth and acceptance.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
— Brent Weeks, The Black Prism
But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice.
— Brent Weeks, The Blood Mirror
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
— Brent Weeks, The Night Angel Trilogy
Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
… your father has two secrets. You, Kip are not one of them.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn’t worth serving.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
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