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The Way Of Shadows

Brent Weeks

Quotes

  1. Kylar woke two hours before dawn and briefly wondered if death would be too high a price to pay for a full night’s sleep.

    p. 282

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  2. “That pain you feel,” Master Blint said almost gently, “is the pain of abandoning a delusion. The delusion is meaning, Kylar. There is no higher purpose. There are no gods. No arbiters of right and wrong. I don’t ask you to like reality. I only ask you to be strong enough to face it. There is nothing beyond this.

    p. 201

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  3. Its limbs were loose, graceless, lying in an uncomfortable position. Unmoving. Just like any corpse. In life, every man was unique. In death every man was meat.

    p. 570

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  4. “Here I thought they were invincible.”

    “They’re immortal. It’s not the same thing.”

    p. 451

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  5. You’re either being terrifically subtle or making no sense at all.

    p. 100

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  6. I’m trying to do what’s right, whether or not that measures up with what men call honorable. There’s a gap between those, you know?

    p. 277

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  7. So he wasn’t dead. That was probably supposed to be a good thing.

    p. 171

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  8. Agon wondered what god Cenaria had offended to deserve such a king.

    p. 158

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  9. “I used to believe a lot of things. That doesn’t make them true,” Durzo said.

    p. 524

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  10. Cruelty walked the Warrens holding hands with poverty and rage.

    p. 30

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  11. It may be beyond your comprehension, but I can hold power without using it.

    p. 130

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  12. Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder. But certain realities have a way of making themselves felt, and debt is one of them.

    p. 400

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  13. It wouldn’t be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat.

    p. 64

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  14. A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it.

    p. 99

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  15. See, you get caught up in the past and you become useless to the present.

    p. 144

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  16. “What do you want? Why am I here?” Rat asked.

    “Ah, petulance and philosophy all bound up in one.”

    p. 52

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  17. You aren’t making art, you’re making corpses. Dead is dead.

    p. 92

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  18. They’re schemers, so they see schemes.

    p. 325

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  19. Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.

    p. 128

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