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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
Writer
Montana
United States
Dies
Better
Live
Guilty
Innocent

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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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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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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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It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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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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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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...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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You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.
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