Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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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2. “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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3. “The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.”

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4. “Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint.”

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5. “If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.”

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6. “Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.”

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7. “You don’t need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it.”

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8. “You will find no answers here, just choices.”

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9. “Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”

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

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11. “Light cannot be chained.”

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12. “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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13. “A job is a job, it isn’t done till it’s done.”

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

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15. “The seeds of love may sprout where they will, but we choose whether to water them and give them light or to pluck them like weeds from the soil.”

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16. “Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.”

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17. “We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all.”

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18. “And the longer you walk in the wrong direction, the farther you have to run to get back to where you should have been.”

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19. “Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.”

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20. “Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”

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21. “Strength is a choice, courage is a habit: Andross Guile.”

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22. “A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint.”

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23. “The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.”

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24. “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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25. “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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26. “Love is a madness. Love is Failer – Durzo Blint.”

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27. “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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28. “Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.”

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29. “They made a deal and they liked the deal, until they had to pay the price.”

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30. “A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.”

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31. “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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32. “It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die.”

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33. “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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34. “I don’t ask you to like reality. I only ask you to be strong enough to face it.”

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35. “If you’re trapped in the darkness all alone, how do you know you’re alone and not actually surrounded by an army of friends, also silent, also afraid in the dark, merely waiting for the sound of one voice to rouse them from fear, to fight for freedom?”

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36. “Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it’s a lie.”

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37. “You can judge a faith by the fruit it bears.”

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38. “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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39. “I learned that in suffering, we find the true measure of our strength.”

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40. “If embarrassment were a muscle, I’d be huge.”

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41. “You don’t share your life with a woman’s body, you share your life with a woman.”

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42. “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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43. “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.”

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44. “You’d be surprised at what you’d do to stay alive.”

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45. “I’m going to explain this to you in terms you can understand: shut up.”

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46. “If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.”

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47. “So let it be written, so let it be done.”

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48. “We know ourselves by how we see ourselves mirrored in others’ eyes. So when a man lies habitually, he distorts the mirror he holds up to the world. In fooling others, he loses himself. Those who praise him? Those who love him? He knows they must simply be fools. He hates himself because there’s a gap between what he is and what he believes himself to be. If the gap grows too large, it becomes a tear, a schism. A man torn asunder lives in madness. So, my friend, do you know who you are?”

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49. “You have to be a little bad to make history.”

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50. “Silence is isolation chosen. Silence is darkness, and every evil loves the dark.”

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