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A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
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Never
Lapdog
Wolf

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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 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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.
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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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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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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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Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - 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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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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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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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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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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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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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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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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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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