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It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Novelist
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Montana
United States
Innocent
Dies
Better
Live
Guilty

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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
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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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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 was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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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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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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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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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
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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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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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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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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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A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.
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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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