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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

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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
Ugliness
Sustain
Beauty
Hours
Moments

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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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..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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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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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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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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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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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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
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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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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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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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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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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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...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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When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.
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