Top 250 Brent Weeks Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “As they kissed, he could feel a tension loosening in him, a tension that had been knotted for so long he’d come to think of that pain as part of the pain of being alive. She.”

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202. “Like many who make their livelihood with their minds, she had an outsized pride in the few things her hands had crafted. It was perhaps the only things for which Ironfist could consider her a silly old lady.”

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203. “I’m trying to do what’s right, whether or not that measures up with what men call honorable. There’s a gap between those, you know?”

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204. “But the more power you have, the harder it is to recognize what’s beyond your power.”

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205. “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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206. “I don’t understand what?” she asked. Damn it. “You’re light to me.” It slipped out. He couldn’t believe he’d said it out loud. His eyes went wide even before hers did.”

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207. “War is cause, all else is effect.”

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208. “Take one deep breath through that poo pincher disfiguring your gob for a moment, won’tcha?”

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209. “Is it better that the guilty should perish, or that the innocent should live?”

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210. “Count Drake had told him that life was precious, that suicide was a coward’s way out, a sin against the God by flinging his gift back in his holy face.”

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211. “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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212. “Triumphant, with a cloak of fire and a crown of blood, Dazen the Black would return. He would bring down heaven and he would raze hell.”

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213. “Because you’re safe, Teia. He would never dream of actually breaking his Blackguard vows, and he knows you wouldn’t, either. So your rejections don’t hurt, or not as much. It’s fun to flirt with someone you find attractive anyway.”

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214. “Confusing the image of a thing with the thing itself is the root of all sorts of trouble.”

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215. “In life, every man was unique. In death, every man was meat.”

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216. “I’m just a wetboy. ” “No, Kylar. I don’t know what you are, but you’re not just anything.”

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217. “It’s what evil does: it promises an easy way out of one problem at the cost of causing worse ones.”

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218. “Lead-soled? You’re the one with heavy feet, you laggard son of a slattern mum – ” “Don’t you talk about our mum that way. If she’d been faithful to dad, you’d not be here.”

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219. “You may have won, Cenaria was saying, but your victory is no triumph. You can force me from my home, but you will not live in it. I will leave you nothing but scorched earth.”

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220. “I was once the avatar of retribution. Now I just try to be polite.”

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “We’re victims of our own refined tastes.”

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

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

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “Don’t judge a man by what he says his ideals are, judge him by what he does.”

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231. “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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232. “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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233. “Dying makes me grumpy, sir.”

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234. “We are all of us frauds. We are all of us frauds, and we are all of us doing the best we can to hold up a tower of illusions and ill-placed hopes.”

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235. “He had the handsome intensity of madmen and prophets. He talked to himself. He talked to the sea.”

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236. “She’d hated him for his weakness, but the young find it too easy to hate the weak.”

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237. “If an institution presents itself as uniquely moral but is secretly monstrous, isn’t that proof that its very ideas are corrupt and corrupting, rather than that only some few of its practitioners are corrupt?”

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238. “Seriously. How embarrassing. To be taken in by another wetboy. Hmm. Or are you a wetgirl?” “Not the way you’re hoping.”

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239. “If an institution requires the monstrous in order to operate – requires, not commits incidentally, requires in an essential way – is it not therefore itself fundamentally monstrous?”

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240. “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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241. “These are the hammerfalls that shape a man. And he accepted the blows. So be it.”

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242. “It was there, and he knew it was there, knew it was more real than what his eyes could presently see.”

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243. “Guilt is a poor counselor. Guilt oft conspires to make two victims where there was only one.”

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244. “So for fifteen years she’d been hiding her love for a man who had been hiding his love for her. That meant she’d betrayed the man who loved her.”

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

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246. “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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247. “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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248. “His shirt tore, revealing a torso so white and flawless it could have been carved of living marble. He was larger than life, and more beautiful than any woman. It was more than simple beauty. It was raw presence, as if you magnified the melancholic yearning and pain of a perfect sunset a thousand times and stirred it with an animal lust to take and be taken and added glory like the true light of a summer day passing through a lens and.”

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249. “But there was a difference between a grand gesture and daily decency.”

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250. “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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