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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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Montana
United States
Live
Guilty
Innocent
Dies
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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 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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You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.
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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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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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If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.
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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 had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
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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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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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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A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
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Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.
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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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...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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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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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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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
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