Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2025 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. “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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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. “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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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 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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157. “But odds are for defying.”

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

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

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163. “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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164. “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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165. “Remember to see yourself as you are in the eyes of those who love you.”

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

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

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

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

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171. “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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172. “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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173. “Hope. Right. Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”

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

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

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

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179. “He couldn’t love as he had loved before. Losing another woman he loved as much as he’d loved Qora would kill him, and it wasn’t fair to ask another woman to act as mother to his daughter if he wasn’t willing to love her with his whole heart. Corvan no longer had a whole heart to give.”

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180. “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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181. “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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182. “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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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. “There is no hell but life, and death is worse.”

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185. “Sometimes the wicked win a battle. Sometimes those who hear the call say no to it. Men have power. Our actions matter, even unto eternity.”

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

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188. “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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189. “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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190. “Of all the things that die, hope is the most easily resurrected.”

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191. “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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192. “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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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. “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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195. “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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196. “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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197. “As if something in the human heart longs for chaos and finality, however violent.”

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198. “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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199. “But Kip knew all about the slimy, steep-sided pit of self-pity. Sometimes, a hard kick in the ass can do what a soft word in the ear can’t.”

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200. “Because audacity is a young man’s sword.”

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