Brent Weeks Quotes

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.

..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.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

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

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

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.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

You have to be a little bad to make history.

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.

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.

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

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.

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?

There was a nice dilemma. How does one interject into a polite conversation, "By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."?

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.

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

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

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

Light cannot be chained.

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

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.

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.