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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
Missing
Boys
Sometimes
Deader
Assassin
Assassins
Wet
Target
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The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.
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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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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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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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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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