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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
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Alive

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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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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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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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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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The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman.
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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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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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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Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.
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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
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Why do you keep saying incarnations like I’m some kind of god?” It wasn’t a great question, but the real questions were so big that Kylar didn’t even know how ask them. “You are worshipped in a few remote areas where your master wasn’t very careful about showing the full extent of his powers.” “What?!
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My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?
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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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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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You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.
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It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.
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A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
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