Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “Arrogance is a blindness we choose.”

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

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156. “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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157. “But odds are for defying.”

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158. “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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159. “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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160. “Don’t judge a man by what he says his ideals are, judge him by what he does.”

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

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163. “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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164. “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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165. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.”

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

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167. “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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168. “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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169. “Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.”

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170. “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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171. “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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172. “Remember to see yourself as you are in the eyes of those who love you.”

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

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

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

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

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178. “You can kiss the bald spot where my fat thighs rub together.”

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

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180. “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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181. “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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182. “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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183. “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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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. “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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186. “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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187. “Yes,” Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. “Kylar thinks... Kylar fears that he’s a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He’s not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.”

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188. “Dying makes me grumpy, sir.”

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189. “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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190. “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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191. “We’re victims of our own refined tastes.”

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

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

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

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195. “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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196. “There’ll be another battle next month or next year, but we did what we had to, and we did it as well as we could,’ the first said. “ ‘There’ll be another battle next month or next year, so we didn’t really accomplish anything,’ the second replied. “Which one’s right, Cruxer?” Kip asked.”

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197. “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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198. “You were broken years ago and you healed hunched. And now you’re broken again and trying to heal even more hunched.”

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199. “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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200. “God was gracious to me. He didn’t make me pay all that I owed, but maybe I had to be willing to pay the full price. That’s how repentance is different from regret.”

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