Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “Knowing I would die for you, how would you live if you were worthy of that sacrifice? Live that way.”

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

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

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

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

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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “Language isn’t weird. People are weird. Language makes sense until people get their phoneme pukers on it.” Teia.”

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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. “A man can’t fall in love at first sight with a woman; he falls in love with what he imagines she is. She is the canvas onto which he casts his hopes and dreams.”

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

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

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

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

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

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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “Others always pay for my failures.”

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

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

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

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129. “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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130. “Denying reality only works as long as enough powerful people see a benefit in playing along.”

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131. “The perfect killer has no identity.”

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132. “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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133. “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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134. “Survivors are willing to make sacrifices.”

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

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

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

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

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

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140. “Every act intends some good.”

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

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

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

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

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148. “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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149. “But odds are for defying.”

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150. “But Teia had a superpower that no one had counted on: she was completely paranoid. She had thought she was being followed a hundred times since she’d started working for the Order, so she’d figured out a thing or two. One, she was a paranoid mess. Two, she was pretty good at it.”

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