Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I am the stupidest person I have ever met.”

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52. “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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53. “Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.”

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54. “I am of you,” said Kip.“I am Guile as much as you are. True, I have a scrap of decency, but only a scrap. How do you think you can treat a Guile with such disregard and get away with it? Because I am you. I’m as cold as you, I’m as smart as you, and when you push me, I’m as evil and cruel as you. I have a thin film of goodness floating on the top of my Guile, grandfather, but I don’t know how senile you must be to miss just how thin it is.”

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

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56. “Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn’t see anything else while they saw her body.”

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

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58. “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.”

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59. “There’s a hope that empowers, and a hope that enfeebles. Don’t confuse them.”

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

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61. “Weak men like humble women, especially great women who make them feel as inferior.”

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62. “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.”

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63. “And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?”

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64. “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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65. “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.”

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66. “The man loved language the way a wife beater loves his wife.”

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

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68. “Idealists mature badly. If they can’t outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind.”

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69. “But given time, horror fades, and repetition makes what was unthinkable now normal; the monstrous is made manageable. For mankind adapts to every horror.”

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70. “Sinking into sarcasm is the heart’s last rebellion against a mind choosing helplessness.”

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71. “He wasn’t afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying before he accomplished his purposes.”

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

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73. “They were deeply in love. Smitten. At their age. Sad.”

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

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

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76. “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.”

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

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78. “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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79. “How can one love the light and live in darkness?”

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80. “Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose.”

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81. “Blubber can take punishment. Fat kids are tougher than anyone knows, especially themselves.”

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82. “I shall return, it vowed. I shall return.”

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83. “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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84. “Sometimes duty required a man to do things he would do almost anything to avoid.”

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85. “That wasn’t snoring,” Cruxer said. “I do not know what it is. We all eat the same food, but this man’s anus... If we could weaponize his farts...”

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86. “This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.”

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87. “Words were power, she said. Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”

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88. “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.”

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89. “But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice.”

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90. “I was a bad child. Fortunately, I’ve come a long way since then. Now I’m a bad man.”

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91. “When life is outrageous, the only appropriate response is an inappropriate one.”

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92. “Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city’s most accomplished artist.”

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93. “It’s easier to build a new culture on the graves of the dead than around the homes of the living.”

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94. “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.”

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95. “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.”

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96. “They knew you had to be stopped. You, Dazen, are the Black Prism.”

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97. “Knowing I would die for you, how would you live if you were worthy of that sacrifice? Live that way.”

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98. “Magic requires will, but words shape will, turn it, direct it, reflect it from one target to another.”

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99. “The beatings were a small price to pay for hope.”

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100. “To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.”

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