Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Arrogance is a blindness we choose.”

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

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153. “They made it so that we can’t change it from within. They made it so we must kill to break it. If we be monsters, we’re monsters made in their image.”

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

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156. “It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.”

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157. “Thank you, Promachos. For all you’ve done that I don’t know. For the prices you’ve paid that I can’t understand. For doing what others couldn’t, or wouldn’t. Thank you.”

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158. “Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth’s air.”

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159. “This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.”

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160. “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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161. “Time makes a coward’s decisions for her.”

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162. “Hope. Right. Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”

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163. “Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.”

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164. “It hurts to leave a lie, but it hurts more to live one.”

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165. “Tell me, Kip, if you’ve done bad things your whole life, but you die doing something good, do you think that makes up for all the bad?”

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166. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.”

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167. “You ached for love. Not only did you want to be loved, as do we all, but you wanted to lavish love on your beloved. You wanted it with your whole being and you thought it had been denied you forever.”

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168. “Remember to see yourself as you are in the eyes of those who love you.”

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169. “But odds are for defying.”

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170. “For beauty isn’t passive; beauty acts upon its beholder, moving and changing him. Line up ten paintings of different women by the same artist and ten men might agree which subject is the most beautiful. But let those men and women mingle for an evening, and duels might be fought over the same question, with no one lying in either case, and each convinced of the rightness of his judgement.”

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171. “Climbing out will be tougher than it would be to tell yourself what a noble martyr you are and live half a life, cuddled up with your misery. But you’re making a choice, like it or not. This isn’t happening to you.”

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172. “War is the wily orator who gets us cheering horrors.”

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173. “The Blackguards themselves would fight with whatever was at hand: blades, magic, a goblet of wine, or a faceful of sand.”

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174. “Mosquitoes are proof that God hates us and wants us to be miserable.” “I always thought of them as a strong hint to go inside and be with friends beside the fire, and be done with the day’s labors.” “You’re kind of a look-on-the-bright-side guy, aren’t you?”

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175. “Just need a dragon now.” He paused. “On second thought, no dragons. I think we’re fine without dragons.”

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176. “Strength is a choice. Courage is a habit. Unfortunately, cowardice is, too.”

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177. “She didn’t seek her heart’s desire instead of doing her duty; she made it her heart’s desire to seek her duty.”

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178. “In another time, I should delight in giving you a second chance. Lust, after all, is a sin of the body. But you have gone beyond lust all the way to the depths of pride in giving reproof to another for your own sin. Thus does the weakness of your body cloud the eye of your mind.”

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179. “As if something in the human heart longs for chaos and finality, however violent.”

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180. “They were mirrors to each other. Gwinvere Kirena would have been perfect for him – if he could love what he saw in the mirror.”

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181. “If that needle was poisoned, this is the antidote. But if the needle wasn’t poisoned, the antidote will kill you. Drink it or don’t.”

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182. “Reptiles stand at the antipodes from this. They care nothing for what their sisters love or their fathers hate. They seek out company only when it’s time to mate. There are some few men and women like this, of course, the broken ones, those born soulless, who possess neither empathy nor plans, nor can even be taught to feel much beyond their immediate fear, hunger, or lust. But most of us aren’t like that at all.”

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183. “For a long time I cursed every new dawn for the beauty I recalled but could no longer see. Instead, I should’ve blessed every dawn for the beauty it granted everyone else.”

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184. “Kip, the world doesn’t explain itself. You go on.” “How?” Kip’s voice sounded small and hollow in his own ears. “You just do.”

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185. “Slavery, a curse that corrupts those on both sides.”

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186. “Strangely, that lack of fear of failure made failures infrequent.”

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187. “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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188. “I don’t want to kill someone,” Karris said quietly, not meeting his gaze. “Oh, you had that look in your eye – ” She looked up and smiled sweetly. “Not someone. I want to kill you.”

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189. “As the Strategist had said, if you want your enemy to fight to the death, cut off all escape; if you want your enemy to retreat, leave a path open.”

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190. “Now. My bet. I can’t tell you what it was, but I can tell you who it was on. I bet everything on Gavin. I bet the world on him, and I may not live long enough to find out who wins.”

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191. “We’re victims of our own refined tastes.”

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192. “In the face of life’s black mysteries, answers feel barren. All I know is that I can only choose my attitude. The mysteries aren’t thereby untangled, but when I choose gratitude, I see life flower.”

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193. “Of all the things that die, hope is the most easily resurrected.”

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194. “Why does everyone else always guess round numbers? They’re not any more likely.”

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195. “People, Liv thought. So strange.”

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196. “This man,” Dorian said, poking Kylar’s chest, “and this one – ” he poked Kylar’s forehead – “are on their way to madness. Take it from one who knows.”

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197. “Beyond that, I learned about visual adaptation – what a picture can say, and what it can’t. A picture’s worth a thousand words, but its vocabulary is limited. A picture’s no sesquipedalian.”

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198. “Don’t judge a man by what he says his ideals are, judge him by what he does.”

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199. “A young woman with fiery hair stood on a hill dominated by an oak, the smoking ruins of an estate to her left. To her right was an abyss. Tiny flecks of blue and green touched her gray eyes. Tears stood on each cheek, but her jaw was set, eyes fixed on some point in the distance.”

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200. “Most people, aware of the number of difficulties already present in a thief’s life, were kind enough to use the same few hiding places.”

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