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You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
Surprised
Stay
Alive

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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.
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...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
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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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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
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When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.
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If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.
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There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.
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Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
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..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
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Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.
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