Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2026 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. “You will find no answers here, just choices.”

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

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

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

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

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

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12. “Light cannot be chained.”

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

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

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

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18. “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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19. “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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20. “Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.”

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

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

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23. “Vengeance stems from a love of justice and a desire to redress wrongs. But revenge is damning. Three faces has the Night Angel, the avatar of Retribution: Vengeance, Justice, Mercy.”

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

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25. “The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.”

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26. “Some things are bigger than your happiness.”

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27. “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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28. “The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.”

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29. “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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30. “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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31. “Love is a madness. Love is Failer – Durzo Blint.”

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

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

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34. “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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35. “Look at your mistakes long enough to learn from them, then put them behind you.”

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

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

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

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40. “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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41. “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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42. “You can judge a faith by the fruit it bears.”

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43. “Power is any action that results in consequences. But real power is action that results in the intended consequences.”

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

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

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

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47. “Some say, ‘Who you are is what you do.’ They’re wrong, but not all wrong. What you do forms who you are. Then who you are forms what you do. It’s a vicious cycle, or a virtuous one, depending. One act doesn’t undo all of who you are, but a thousand acts make you who you are. So it’s simple, though not easy: stop creating the wrong you.”

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

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

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