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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Montana
United States
Moments
Ugliness
Sustain
Beauty
Hours

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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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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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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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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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It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
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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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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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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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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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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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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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Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
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one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.
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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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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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A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.
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