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They were mirrors to each other. Gwinvere Kirena would have been perfect for him - if he could love what he saw in the mirror. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life. -- Brent Weeks
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
Great beauties and stunningly handsome men were accorded virtues: people found them funnier, smarter, more insightful than they actually were. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- 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
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. -- Brent Weeks
I oh wha ih eenz, idj," Vi said, though it was a lie. -- Brent Weeks
I heard you talking about the Night Angel," she said. "Kylar Stern."
"Mmm."
"I want you to know something," she whispered into his ear, making him shiver. What the hell was she saying? "Kylar's my brother. He's coming for me,
you dirty fucker, and if I don't kill you, he will. -- Brent Weeks
Arrogance is a blindness we choose. -- Brent Weeks
I'm like the dog with a bone who crossed a low bridge in the fable. I see another dog passing beneath me carrying a bone, and I snap to take his bone - and drop my own into the water, into my reflection. -- Brent Weeks
Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
Weak men like humble women, especially great women who make them feel as inferior. -- Brent Weeks
You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it -- Brent Weeks
It wouldn't be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat. -- Brent Weeks
There was something very fine about seeing a man damn himself. -- Brent Weeks
Alexas the blessed ... was a good kid." Durzo laughed. Then his smile faded. "Broke my heart to kill him. But he needed killing by the end. -- Brent Weeks
Azoth had learned that lesson. He didn't have to understand; he just had to obey. -- Brent Weeks
You're a great man, but only when seen from afar. -- Brent Weeks
The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman. -- Brent Weeks
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 ... -- Brent Weeks
You'll fight. You'll die. And I'll miss you. -- Brent Weeks
You will find no answers here, just choices. -- Brent Weeks
A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but he'll never forgive one who goes whoring for him. -- Brent Weeks
To hold fealty to your own and to call it a high virtue is ludicrous. Even animals protect their own. It is a good, but it is a common good, an easy one. It's a miser who says he grows rich not for himself, but for his children. His vice is not thus magically made virtue. -- Brent Weeks
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. -- Brent Weeks
Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's. -- Brent Weeks
People like you don't come to us; they just feel frustrated by life, like they're supposed to be something more than they are, but they can never break through. -- Brent Weeks
But emptiness can't be threatened. Emptiness holds nothing dear. Emptiness knows no fear. -- Brent Weeks
That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good. -- Brent Weeks
I am the stupidest person I have ever met. -- Brent Weeks
There's a hope that empowers, and a hope that enfeebles. Don't confuse them. -- Brent Weeks
There is no cheating in war; there are only survivors and victims. -- Brent Weeks
And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you? -- Brent Weeks
Light cannot be chained. -- Brent Weeks
You have to be a little bad to make history. -- Brent Weeks
Hatred and envy birth self-destruction in every heart that gives them a bed to breed in. -- Brent Weeks
The only life you have the right to sacrifice for the greater good is your own. -- Brent Weeks
Is that all your life is?" Kylar asked, finally looking up. "Tests and challenges?"
"My life? That's all life is. -- Brent Weeks
When you have lived either a very short time or a very long time - if you've lived well - you will be able to love easily, too. Broken hearts have fresh places to bond with new faces. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness. -- Brent Weeks
A whimsical choice, perhaps a dangerous choice, but a shadow should bear some resemblance to the shape that cast it. -- Brent Weeks
The horror is having profound power in one hand and a strong moral sense in the other and absolutely no foundation to stand on. -- Brent Weeks
It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die -- Brent Weeks
But Teia had a superpower that no one had counted on: she was completely paranoid. She had thought she was being followed a hundred times since she'd started working for the Order, so she'd figured out a thing or two. One, she was a paranoid mess. Two, she was pretty good at it. -- Brent Weeks
Never tempt a man beyond what he can endure. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss. -- Brent Weeks
Every act intends some good. -- Brent Weeks
Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future. -- Brent Weeks
Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can. -- Brent Weeks
Power is any action that results in consequences. But real power is action that results in the intended consequences. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
Sometimes a seer could be a pain in the ass? Try always. -- Brent Weeks
This wasn't shit creek. This wasn't no paddle. This was shit ocean. This was I can't even see land. -- Brent Weeks
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
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. -- Brent Weeks
Highest marks of the day. And don't ever do it again. -- Brent Weeks
A job is a job, it isn't done till it's done. -- Brent Weeks
Sometimes lies are most necessary with our friends. -- Brent Weeks
They were deeply in love. Smitten. At their age. Sad. -- Brent Weeks
Embrace the shadows ... Breathe the silence ... Be ordinary, be invisible ... Mark the man ... Know every out ... -- Brent Weeks
and transition from one to the other. Scrape -- Brent Weeks
If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless. -- Brent Weeks
Orholam," Gavin said, "do I have your full attention?" "Always." "Good." He cracked his neck right and left. "Because fuck you." He dove into the water. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
We all make choises,and then we bear the consequences for those. -- Brent Weeks
What happens if you do nothing, nothing, there's a price and a terrible freedom to that -- Brent Weeks
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
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. -- Brent Weeks
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good? ... -- Brent Weeks
Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint -- Brent Weeks
I don't ask you to like reality. I only ask you to be strong enough to face it. -- Brent Weeks
You ached for love. Not only did you want to be loved, as do we all, but you wanted to lavish love on your beloved. -- Brent Weeks
Analogies are lies grown-ups tell." "Why? -- Brent Weeks
He wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying before he accomplished his purposes. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet?
Well, I can. I'm not so sure about Doll Girl. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness. -- Brent Weeks
The man loved language the way a wife beater loves his wife. -- Brent Weeks
Ashes. Ashes, and blood, and nothing more. -- Brent Weeks
King: "You're ... you're shit! You shitting, shitting shit!"
"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. -- Brent Weeks
Delayed justice was as bad as injustice. -- Brent Weeks
Oh, my friend, what have you gone through that being called moral nearly makes you weep? Or was it being called friend? -- Brent Weeks
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
Might doesn't make right. Might makes reality. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
The God gives simpler problems to lesser men. -- Brent Weeks
The beatings were a small price to pay for hope. -- Brent Weeks
Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint -- Brent Weeks
A man's greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint -- Brent Weeks
Even winning means nothing. We win because it's an insult to lose. -- Brent Weeks
The most potent magics are tied to human truths: beauty and passion and yearning and fortitude and valor and empathy. -- Brent Weeks
'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. -- Brent Weeks
I die and go to a library? Sure, it could be worse, but I've spent a lot of time in libraries this year. Quite enough time, really. Do I have to stay forever? Where do I go pee? -- Brent Weeks
An oath you only keep when it's convenient isn't an oath at all. -- Brent Weeks
Her body was more persuasive than a room full of scholars. -- Brent Weeks
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 Weeks
All women are whores," she said. "Whether they sell their bodies or their smiles and their charm or their childbearing years and submission to a man. The world makes a woman a whore, but a woman makes her terms. -- Brent Weeks
DON'T TOUCH MY HAIR!' she yelled. -- Brent Weeks
Choose in haste and regret at leisure. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity. -- Brent Weeks
Durzo gazed into the frothy brown ale as if it held answers. It didn't, -- Brent Weeks
When you deal with human beings, never count on logic or consistency. -- Brent Weeks
We become the masks we wear. -- Brent Weeks
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value. -- Brent Weeks
Sometimes duty required a man to do things he would do almost anything to avoid. -- 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. -- Brent Weeks
That they have learned to weep at war is no victory. That they know loss is no gain. -- Brent Weeks
So for fifteen years she'd been hiding her love for a man who had been hiding his love for her. That meant she'd betrayed the man who loved her. -- Brent Weeks
There's a divinity that shapes beauty from our rough hewn lives. -- Brent Weeks
Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat. -- Brent Weeks
In suffering, we find the true measure of our strength. -- Brent Weeks
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
One doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny. -- Brent Weeks
Count Drake had told him that life was precious, that suicide was a coward's way out, a sin against the God by flinging his gift back in his holy face. -- Brent Weeks
You can't understand a God who's all mercy and no justice. That cute, fuzzy God wouldn't last two minutes in the Warrens, would he? -- Brent Weeks
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
How can one love the light and live in darkness? -- Brent Weeks
The truth was, Dorian had always been more interested in being known as good than in simply being good -- Brent Weeks
A young woman with fiery hair stood on a hill dominated by an oak, the smoking ruins of an estate to her left. To her right was an abyss. Tiny flecks of blue and green touched her gray eyes. Tears stood on each cheek, but her jaw was set, eyes fixed on some point in the distance. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
My name is Marissia Pullawr. The White was my grandmother. You were my assignment. I was never a slave. -- Brent Weeks
despite the passage of time, it wasn't getting any better. -- Brent Weeks
As they were walked closer, Kip saw that his inference was correct: every single person here was a drafter. There had to be eight hundred or a thousand drafters here! "Orholam," Karris breathed. "There must be five hundred drafters here." So I can't count, so what? -- Brent Weeks
Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
'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. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
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
You were broken years ago and you healed hunched. And now you're broken again and trying to heal even more hunched. -- Brent Weeks
People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The real quote is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. Not as pithy, but a lot truer. -- Brent Weeks
It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
Analogies are lies grown-ups tell. -- Brent Weeks
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
I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
A whore's truth has too many sharp edges. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
I shall return, it vowed. I shall return. -- Brent Weeks
There is no hell but life, and death is worse. -- Brent Weeks
Survivors are willing to make sacrifices. -- Brent Weeks
Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice. -- Brent Weeks
Growing old with the woman I love would be my first choice, but dying reconciled with her isn't a bad second. -- Brent Weeks
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? -- Brent Weeks
Language isn't weird. People are weird. Language makes sense until people get their phoneme pukers on it." Teia -- Brent Weeks
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug. -- Brent Weeks
There is only one question: Does what you do, every day, have meaning? Acaelus had thought his actions did, once. For centuries, he'd put his faith in Jorsin Alkestes. A long dead king. A madman who'd sworn he would return. Even from death. A madman who'd left madness everywhere in his wake. -- Brent Weeks
I'm just a wetboy. " "No, Kylar. I don't know what you are, but you're not just anything. -- Brent Weeks
It is in carrying heavier burdens than we think we can bear that we become stronger. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
Now you speak with the insight I'd expect from a woman. Which is to say none. -- Brent Weeks
We're victims of our own refined tastes. -- Brent Weeks
It hurts to leave a lie, but it hurts more to live one. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
It is better to suffer evil than to do evil. -- Brent Weeks
This is how tyrants fall. By destroying their people, they destroy themselves. -- Brent Weeks
In this life, we are not garments which may be washed and worn again, Karris. We are candles, giving light and heat until we are consumed. You burned more brightly than most. It has a cost. Mediocrities like me? Dim flames burn longer. -- Brent Weeks
All power is a test. -- Brent Weeks
We so easily convince ourselves that what is good for me is also good for others. -- Brent Weeks
Others always pay for my failures. -- Brent Weeks
Magic requires will, but words shape will, turn it, direct it, reflect it from one target to another. -- Brent Weeks
Don't play with your kills. Don't go for the one-thrust beautiful finish. Cut someone twenty times and let them collapse from blood loss - then finish them. Don't make it beautiful. You aren't making art, you're making corpses. -- Brent Weeks
The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving. -- Brent Weeks
We're finished, God. From now on, you answer your own fucking prayers. -- Brent Weeks
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. -- Brent Weeks
It was the kind of beauty that made you shit your pants. -- Brent Weeks
There was something being settled here, and if it was primal and barbaric and petty and stupid, it was still important. -- Brent Weeks
Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice. -- Brent Weeks
Do you know what you can do to an enemy but not to a friend? Stab her in the back. -- Brent Weeks
Escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens. -- Brent Weeks
Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body. -- Brent Weeks
Not all shame comes from wrong doing and not all hiding comes from moral failure. -- Brent Weeks
Were there socially accepted ways to curtail dull conversations? -- Brent Weeks
The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster. I'm no god. -- Brent Weeks
Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge? -- Brent Weeks
The perfect killer has no identity. -- Brent Weeks
A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog. -- Brent Weeks
Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken. -- Brent Weeks
You are a god clad in flesh, Gaelan Starfire, and you're more fragile than you know. Be ware. -- Brent Weeks
Messy emotional issues could wait until later, or never. -- Brent Weeks
Great men are not so selfless. -- Brent Weeks
Idealists mature badly. If they can't outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind. -- Brent Weeks
What happens when you strip away all the masks a man wears and you find not a face beneath them but nothing at all? -- Brent Weeks
He didn't make me pay all that I owed, but maybe I had to be willing to pay the full price. That's how repentance is different from regret. -- Brent Weeks
It wasn't love - it was commerce. -- Brent Weeks
Why am I attracted to her butt? How weird is that? Why do men like butts anyway? -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge. -- Brent Weeks
Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing. -- Brent Weeks
I don't know. I don't remember. What does it matter? -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
Truth doesn't depend on your belief in it. -- Brent Weeks
Some things are bigger than your happiness. -- Brent Weeks
Knowing I would die for you, how would you live if you were worthy of that sacrifice? Live that way. -- Brent Weeks
One doesn't sent a lion to kill a rat. -- Brent Weeks
Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter. -- Brent Weeks
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 - -- Brent Weeks
There was something beautiful about standing in the middle of what should be an intensely private moment. -- Brent Weeks
This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains. -- Brent Weeks
Less weight and less strength just means you need to be smarter. -- Brent Weeks
It's easier to build a new culture on the graves of the dead than around the homes of the living. -- Brent Weeks
Knowledge is a musket. You can use it only as a club, but will you? When your life is on the line? -- Brent Weeks
Just when a man makes a decision that everything he's believed his whole life is a lie, something comes along tempting him to believe again. -- Brent Weeks
I was once the avatar of retribution. Now I just try to be polite. -- Brent Weeks
And on a difference of three minutes, all of history changes. -- Brent Weeks
You got potential, Kip.
And you know what potential means? he replied.
Ain't done nothing yet. -- Brent Weeks
Your father has two secrets. You, Kip are not one of them. -- Brent Weeks
Kip looked up at him and grinned. Don't you know what I am? I'm the fucking turtle-bear. -- Brent Weeks
Look at your mistakes long enough to learn from them, then put them behind you. -- Brent Weeks
That's the thing. If you're prepared to get shit on and do your work anyway, sometimes you get lucky. -- Brent Weeks
You will not draft here," she said.
"I'll decide that," Gavin said.
Instead of looking irritated, she smiled. "It is as foretold."
Seers. Excellent. "Someone foretold that I'd say that?" Gavin asked.
"No, that you'd be an asshole. -- Brent Weeks
By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability? -- Brent Weeks
We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all. -- Brent Weeks
You're the best there is. No one can replace you." Unexpectedly, the White chuckled. "Words every megalomaniac longs to hear. But true only of the truly bad and the monumentally great. I am neither, -- Brent Weeks
**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.) -- Brent Weeks
The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. -- Brent Weeks
After a while, with nothing to lose, I'll only able to win. -- Brent Weeks
May the sun smile upon you and all storms find you in port -- Brent Weeks
If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player. -- Brent Weeks
It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft. -- Brent Weeks
Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie. -- Brent Weeks
Attack dolphins. What the hell was that? Dolphins were supposed to be nice. -- Brent Weeks
There's a reason theory and practice are two different words. -- Brent Weeks
Politics is ethics writ large. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
I was a bad child. Fortunately, I've come a long way since then. Now I'm a bad man. -- Brent Weeks
Sometimes life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to -- Brent Weeks
A lie told in the service of truth is virtue. -- Brent Weeks
You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive. -- Brent Weeks
Non takuulam. I shall not serve. -- Brent Weeks
Going into battle without her grays would be like going into battle with her hair unbound. -- Brent Weeks
This man," Dorian said, poking Kylar's chest, "and this one - " he poked Kylar's forehead - "are on their way to madness. Take it from one who knows. -- Brent Weeks
He had them heart and soul and strength, not because he gave them a respect they didn't deserve, but because he expected them to deliver the best they were able to deliver, always, and he thought their best was better than they thought it was. This -- Brent Weeks
You're amazing," Kylar said.
~I know.~
"Humble, too. -- Brent Weeks
Come, the Devil's Highway awaits. -- Brent Weeks
Andross, you motherfucker. -- Brent Weeks
I'm going to explain this to you in terms you can understand: shut up. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
Nocta Hemata. The Night of Passion. The Night of Abandon. -- Brent Weeks
Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard. -- Brent Weeks
A man who denies what is essential to his being is a man who drills holes in the cup of his own happiness. -- Brent Weeks
My writing has a lot of surprising twists. -- Brent Weeks
Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well. -- Brent Weeks
Desperate men fight best. -- 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 perfect killer has no conscience. -- Brent Weeks
Our home is gone, but come home, -- Brent Weeks
If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
I am simply competent ... Not a leader except when leadership is lacking. -- Brent Weeks
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. -- Brent Weeks
And what more could a man hope for but to conquer death? -- Brent Weeks
There was a nice dilemma.
How does one interject into a polite conversation,
"By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."? -- Brent Weeks
A king made choices for other people based on information they didn't have. That was the burden of rule. -- Brent Weeks
When you surrender what isn't under your control, you're not giving up a crown, you're giving up a yoke. -- Brent Weeks
You're not really the Night Angel. You're only a shadow and shadows can't touch anything. -- Brent Weeks
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 -- Brent Weeks
To be king means to accept that others will pay the price of your failures
and even your successes. -- Brent Weeks
Everyone thinks they're special. It's what makes lying so easy. -- Brent Weeks
Life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to do. -- Brent Weeks
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
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins. -- Brent Weeks
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god. -- Brent Weeks
