Brent Weeks (born March 7, 1977) is an American fantasy writer. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with The Blinding Knife in its first month, September 2012.
You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless. The coranti shall not go unpunished. My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility nobility. In shame honor. In darkness light. I will do justice and love mercy. Until the king returns I shall not lay my burden down. ” --(Durzo Blint to Jorses Alkestes, quoted to Skylar at the edge of Ezra's Forest. )
The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman.
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.
A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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?!
Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.
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.
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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.
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.
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.
Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice. ” ~ Durzo Blint
Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.
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.
. . . 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.
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.
It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.