Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “How well do you know yourself?” He thought about the years, the goals he’d achieved, and the ultimate goal it was serving. “The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster,” Gavin said. “I’m no god.” She stared at him for one moment more, those intense blue eyes unreadable. She smiled. “Well then. Maybe the times call for a monster.” She knelt at his feet, and he blessed her.”

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102. “You can’t understand a God who’s all mercy and no justice. That cute, fuzzy God wouldn’t last two minutes in the Warrens, would he?”

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103. “Attack dolphins. What the hell was that? Dolphins were supposed to be nice.”

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104. “Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?”

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105. “Kip had tasted honey that few in the history of the world had tasted: he’d had meaningful work, and friendship with titans; a great marriage to a strong, good, beautiful woman; and a father who’d been willing to die for him.”

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106. “He kissed her. And she kissed him. And it was infatuation, and it was hunger, and it was longing to be loved, and it was an all-consuming fire so hot it devoured worry and loneliness and fear and time and being and thought itself. They kissed, embracing, flying, and for a hundred heartbeats, there was no war, no death, no pain, nothing hard, nothing terrible, nothing but warmth and acceptance.”

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107. “That was the trouble of a consistency in moral affairs: holding yourself up to the measure you judge others by is three clicks past irritating.”

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108. “I’m asking you to make an adult decision. Are you ready to die, maybe alone, far from home, with no one even knowing what a hero you were? I can’t even promise that your lives or your deaths will accomplish victory” – Ironfist, p156.”

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109. “Dorian said, ‘If you do the right thing twice, it will cost you your life. ’ Blint said, ‘There are things more valuable than life.’ The count said, ‘You can’t pay for all you’ve done. But you aren’t beyond redemption. There’s always a way out. And if you’re willing to make the sacrifice, the God will give you the chance to save something priceless.”

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110. “In this life, we are not garments which may be washed and worn again, Karris. We are candles, giving light and heat until we are consumed. You burned more brightly than most. It has a cost. Mediocrities like me? Dim flames burn longer.”

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111. “Language isn’t weird. People are weird. Language makes sense until people get their phoneme pukers on it.” Teia.”

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112. “One can revere what one wishes to emulate. One can’t revere what one wishes to replace.”

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113. “I’m afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we’ve made it all but certain.”

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114. “Charm is less effective on people who have good reason to kick your ass.”

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115. “And what more could a man hope for but to conquer death?”

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116. “Why do men walk to the edge of a chasm? Is the view so different, right at the edge, than it is two steps back? They walk to the edge because it scares them.”

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117. “Her body was more persuasive than a room full of scholars.”

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118. “When the sands were running out of the glass, delayed justice was as bad as injustice.”

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119. “The young women who’d joined the harvesters had shortened their skirts to make it easier to climb ladders repeatedly. Clearly someone had objected to that. Probably not the young men holding the ladders.”

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120. “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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121. “The perfect killer has no identity.”

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122. “She looked at the door, and wondered if they meant it. Could she leave now? “We’ve no cowards among us,” the man said. “Good.” Teia wanted to shout, Wait! I think I might be a coward! Can I think on it a bit longer?”

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123. “Others always pay for my failures.”

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124. “They seized him, and of all the acts of will in a life famed for them, it was by far the greatest that he resisted them not.”

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125. “War is the cause, everything else is the result.”

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126. “Survivors are willing to make sacrifices.”

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127. “My name is Marissia Pullawr. The White was my grandmother. You were my assignment. I was never a slave.”

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128. “Tongues should be used to commit indiscretions, not to discuss them.”

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129. “The most important part of seeking victory is defining it first,” Tisis said.”

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130. “It wouldn’t be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat.”

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131. “And on a difference of three minutes, all of history changes.”

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132. “It was like a child addressing a tidal wave, saying, I will not be moved – and before the words are out of his mouth, all is ocean, leaving no sign; not only no sign of the child, but no sign of his defiance, no sign that anything opposed the crushing sea in the least, no eddy, no swirl, no detritus, only simple, plain, indisputable nothingness.”

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133. “To hold fealty to your own and to call it a high virtue is ludicrous. Even animals protect their own. It is a good, but it is a common good, an easy one. It’s a miser who says he grows rich not for himself, but for his children. His vice is not thus magically made virtue.”

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134. “Every act intends some good.”

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135. “The truth was, Dorian had always been more interested in being known as good than in simply being good.”

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136. “Everyone thinks they’re special. It’s what makes lying so easy.”

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137. “They were intent, utterly focused, fearful of letting the commander down, but not fearful. He had them heart and soul and strength, not because he gave them a respect they didn’t deserve, but because he expected them to deliver the best they were able to deliver, always, and he thought their best was better than they thought it was. This was a great man in action. It was a quiet greatness.”

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138. “Once a man is convinced to believe the impossible, it’s impossible to make him disbelieve it.”

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139. “After years of knowing her, a woman’s beauty shouldn’t be able to reach straight into a man’s chest and squeeze the breath out of him. Especially not when he could never have her.”

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140. “We so easily convince ourselves that what is good for me is also good for others.”

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141. “Messy emotional issues could wait until later, or never.”

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142. “The horror is having profound power in one hand and a strong moral sense in the other and absolutely no foundation to stand on.”

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143. “Arrogance is a blindness we choose.”

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144. “Do you know what you can do to an enemy but not to a friend? Stab her in the back.”

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145. “But after you know a man or a woman like that – after you wear their skin and walk a few miles in it, you can’t help but love them –.”

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146. “People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The real quote is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. Not as pithy, but a lot truer.”

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147. “Oh, my friend, what have you gone through that being called moral nearly makes you weep? Or was it being called friend?”

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148. “We each tend to think of our time as the end product of all that has come before, which is true, but we like to believe our time is therefore the pinnacle, rather than another pearl on the string.”

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149. “That they have learned to weep at war is no victory. That they know loss is no gain.”

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150. “Sometimes people shouldn’t get what they deserve. If there isn’t more in the world than justice, it’s all for nothing.”

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