Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “You’ll fight. You’ll die. And I’ll miss you.”

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153. “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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154. “Arrogance is a blindness we choose.”

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155. “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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156. “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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157. “Do you know what you can do to an enemy but not to a friend? Stab her in the back.”

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

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

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

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

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

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167. “This is how life gets cheap. Someone teaches you how easy it is to kill. Someone gives you permission. The next moment it simply seems like the thing to do. You’re stopping an unwanted flow of information, not sending immortal souls to their maker for judgment.”

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

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

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

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

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

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174. “There’s a reason theory and practice are two different words.”

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175. “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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176. “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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177. “We keep secret what we fear makes us weak, not realizing in our fear that it is the keeping of secrets itself that weakens us.”

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

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179. “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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180. “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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181. “Someone’s gonna do evil, might as well be me. And if everyone in the world said that, what kind of world would it be?”

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182. “Have you ever wondered if you were the only real person in the world, and everything and everyone else was just your imagination?”

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

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184. “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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185. “How do you move too fast for fear to follow when you can’t move at all?”

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186. “There is no hell but life, and death is worse.”

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187. “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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188. “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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189. “Do you want to know one of the deepest horrors of life? None of us is needed, not truly. It’s just nicer for those who love us if we’re there.”

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190. “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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191. “Kylar, in the crucible of tragedy, explanations fail. When you stand before a tragedy and tell yourself that there is no sense to it, doesn’t your heart break? I think that must be as hard for you as it is for me when I scream at God and demand to know why – and he says nothing. We will both survive this, Kylar. The difference is, on the other side I will have hope.”

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192. “The scars were only proof of her love made visible in her flesh, like a mother’s stretch marks. Anyone who couldn’t see beauty in them was a fool.”

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193. “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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194. “As long as I’m in your heart, I’ll never truly die.’ Ha! Please don’t keep me trapped in your heart after I die, girl. I get claustrophobic.”

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195. “And last, thank you to you unshakably curious readers who still read acknowledgments though you aren’t looking for your name. What, the book wasn’t long enough for you? Go on, get outta here and go tell someone, “You gotta read this! No, really. C’mon, there’s a maa-aap.”

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

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198. “Not all shame comes from wrong doing and not all hiding comes from moral failure.”

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

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200. “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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