Brent Weeks Quotes

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• 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.

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  Men, Nihilism, Sin

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• You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

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  Strong, Reality, Needs

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• If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

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  Player, Worry, Trying

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Wedding, Husband, Flower

  Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.475, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Dark, Simple, Evil

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• If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

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  Ifs, Meaningless

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• 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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  Armor, Remember

  Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.133, Hachette UK

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• ..because 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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  Powerful, Stupid, Kind

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• Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

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  Moments, Hours, Ugliness

  "The Black Prism". Book by Brent Weeks, August 25, 2010.

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• The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

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  Men, Giving, Problem

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• 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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  Men, Thinking, Trying

  Brent Weeks (2010). “The Black Prism: Book 1 of Lightbringer”, p.97, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Book, People, Doe

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• Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice.” ~ Durzo Blint

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  Mean, Winning, Justice

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

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  Busy, Get Away, Ifs

  Brent Weeks (2010). “The Black Prism: Book 1 of Lightbringer”, p.338, Hachette UK

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• Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

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  Sin, Flaws, Multitudes

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• Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

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  Dream, Lying, Mean

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Dream, Shadow, Abiding

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel”, p.89, Hachette UK

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

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  Men, Wells

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• You have to be a little bad to make history.

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  Littles

  Brent Weeks (2010). “The Black Prism: Book 1 of Lightbringer”, p.169, Hachette UK

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

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  Believe, People, Delusional

  Brent Weeks (2010). “The Black Prism: Book 1 of Lightbringer”, p.285, Hachette UK

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• You will find no answers here, just choices.

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  Choices, Answers

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.411, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Beautiful Girl

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