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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Montana
United States
Guilty
Innocent
Dies
Better
Live

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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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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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Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.
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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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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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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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If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.
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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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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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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 God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
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A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
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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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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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Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.
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