Top 60 Peter V. Brett Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.”

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2. “Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.”

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3. “There’s other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It’s not brave to fight a battle you can’t win.”

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4. “Great things can be found in small talk.”

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5. “You are my daughter. I would love you if you put out the sun.”

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6. “All men are brothers in the night.”

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7. “To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.”

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8. “People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.”

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9. “I’ll take my chances with this life all the same. The next one will find you no matter where you run. No sense chasing it.”

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10. “I don’t pretend to see the path, but I know it’s there all the same. One day, we’ll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.”

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11. “Pain is only wind, bend as the palm and let it blow over you.”

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12. “Because Ragen is kind hearted and strong at the same time, and I know how rare that kind of man is. Because I never doubted that he loved me, and would come back. But most of all, because the moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.”

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13. “Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.”

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14. “Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.”

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15. “There’s a wide world out there, for those willing to brave the dark.”

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16. “I don’t know if there’s a Creator or not, but I know He didn’t come down from Heaven and write any books. Books are written by men, and men are weak, stupid, and corrupt.”

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17. “The Creator did not give humans wards. Humans created them out of unified need. Alone, the symbols had no power. It was the resolve of their makers, the hope and prayers of the masses huddling behind them.”

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18. “Do you believe the corelings are our own fault?” Arlen asked. “That we deserve them?” “Of course I believe,” she said. “It is the word of the Creator.” “No,” Arlen said. “It’s a book. Books are written by men. If the Creator wanted to tell us something, why would he use a book, and not write on the sky with fire?”

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19. “Pain teaches, Par’chin, Jardir had once told him, and so we give it freely. Pleasure teaches nothing, and so must be earned.”

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20. “Bruna nodded. “We keep the knowledge of the old world for the day it will be needed again, but that knowledge comes with a great responsibility. If the histories of the ancient wars of man tell us anything, it’s that men cannot be trusted with the secrets of fire.”

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21. “Don’t be so quick to leave childhood behind, girl,” Bruna said. “You’ll find you miss it when its gone.”

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22. “Inevera raised an eyebrow. “You suggest I mislead the council of Damaji about what I see in the sacred dice?” Abban smiled. “Damajah, please. Do not insult us both.”

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23. “Forgot to breathe, again.”

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24. “War is, at its crux, deception, Dama Khevat taught. A great leader must hold his deceit so close that even he himself does not think on it until the time to strike.”

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25. “Kaji’s ways,” Abban said. “Interpreted by corrupt Damaji to their own ends over the centuries.”

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26. “Corespawn it, Ren, you can’t just go around cutting people’s hands off!”

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27. “Arlen welcomed the pain, for it meant he was alive when he had no right to be.”

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28. “Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.”

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29. “Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school.”

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30. “Entitlements. Leesha hated the word, too, but not for the same reason as Arther. It was a cold word, used by those with full bellies to bemoan feeding those without.”

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31. “Cowards kill as often as heroes.”

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32. “Hiding isn’t always enough, Arlen,′ Ragen said. ‘Sometimes, hiding kills something inside of you, so that even if you survive the demons, you don’t really.”

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33. “In his mind, the book, as much as anything in the world, was responsible for the wretched state of humanity – cowering and weak when they should stand strong; always afraid, never hopeful. But for all that, many of the Canon’s sentiments about brotherhood and the fellowship of men were ones the Warded Man believed in deeply. He.”

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34. “It doesn’t serve the dead to stop living yourself, out of guilt.”

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35. “Speak not of Everam and Nie, Par’chin. You believe in neither.” “And still better at your religion than you!”

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36. “Every day away from succor was another night spent outside with the corelings, and not even Arlen took that lightly, but he had a deep and driving need to see things that no other man had seen, to go places no other man had gone. He had been eleven when he ran away from home. Now he was twenty, and had seen more of the world than any but a handful of other men.”

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37. “Why should I help you?” Jardir asked. “Because,” the Par’chin said, “we’re going to capture a mind demon and make it take us to the Core. “It’s time we brought the fight to the alagai.”

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38. “Hurting with words is easy,” Mairy replied, echoing Leesha’s earlier statement, “it’s healing with them what’s hard.”

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39. “Mistakes are easy to see, when you look back.”

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40. “That is faith. You cannot measure it with weights and doses like your herbs. You cannot classify it in your books, or test it with chemics. But it is there, more powerful than any bit of old world science. Only the Creator can see the path ahead. He makes of us what he wants – what the world needs – us to be. But we can have a glimpse, looking back.”

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41. “Embrace the pain, Sharum.”

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42. “They follow their hearts. I know it sounds like madness, Arlen, but deep down, men want to fight, like they did in tales of old. They want to protect their women and children as men should. But they can’t, because the great wards are lost, so they knot themselves like caged hares, sitting terrified through the night. But sometimes, especially when you see loved ones die, the tension breaks you and you just snap.”

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43. “Few could match her wisdom, and fewer still her stubbornness.”

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44. “Ay, wait,” Rojer said. “Don’t I get a say in this? All a sudden I’m intended, and have to live with my new mother-in-law?” “What’s wrong with my mum?” Kendall demanded. “Nothing,” Rojer said. “Corespawned right,” Kendall said.”

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45. “Startin’ to think it don’t matter if Everam’s in the sky or in your imagination. It’s a voice that tells you to act right, and that’s more than most folk have.”

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46. “I think, sometimes, when he’s busy loving you, he forgets to hate himself.”

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47. “Love nothing so much you cannot leave it at the bargaining table.”

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48. “Never believed in Heaven, but I always wanted to die with a spear in my hand.”

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49. “Their families bled for him, and he repaid them in candy.”

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50. “Even after all these years, there was something he knew he needed to prove. To himself, and to the night.”

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