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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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Love Is, Weakness, Triumph

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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

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Men, Greatest Treasure, Illusion

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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.

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Knows, Fronts

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How can one love the light and live in darkness?

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Light, Darkness, One Love

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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

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Prayer, Sin

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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.

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Sacrifice, Winning, Guarantees That

Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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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.

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Dying, Moments, Easy

Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.403, Hachette UK

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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.

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Intuition, Body, Firsts

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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, Way, Months

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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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Real, Simple, Broken

Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.409, Hachette UK

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Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

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Love Is, Madness

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Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

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Love Is, Sometimes, Easy

Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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

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People, Choices, Enough

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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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Mountain, Matter, Born

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I’ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. I’ll wait until you think I’ve forgotten today. I’ll wait until you think it was just a dumb guild rat’s threat. After I’m a master, you’ll jump at shadows for a while. But after you jump a dozen times and I’m not there, you won’t jump just once, and that’s when I’ll be there. I don’t care if you kill me at the same time. I’ll trade my life for yours.

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Thinking, Waiting, Dumb

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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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Believe, Moving, Air

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

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Boys, Missing, Target

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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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Girl, Secret, Dolls

Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.17, Hachette UK

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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, Would Be, Poison

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Light cannot be chained.

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Light, Chained

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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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Empty Life, Killers, Bitter

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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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Believe, Evil, Doe

Brent Weeks (2009). “Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel”, p.306, Hachette UK

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

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Meaning Of Life, Life Is, Meaningless

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...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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Reality, Wish, Complaining

Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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"I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not." [...] "I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless." [...]
"The coranti shall not go unpunished." [...]
"My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility, nobility. In shame, honor. In darkness, light. I will do justice and love mercy."

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Strong, Kings, Light

"Perfect Shadow: A Night Angel Novella". Book by Brent Weeks, June 1, 2011.

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