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If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
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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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.
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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 had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
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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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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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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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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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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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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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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 wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
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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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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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