296 Quotes by Brent Weeks

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.

There’s a hope that empowers, and a hope that enfeebles. Don’t confuse them.

The truth was, Dorian had always been more interested in being known as good than in simply being good.

If you’re trapped in the darkness all alone, how do you know you’re alone and not actually surrounded by an army of friends, also silent, also afraid in the dark, merely waiting for the sound of one voice to rouse them from fear, to fight for freedom?

Sometimes duty required a man to do things he would do almost anything to avoid.

Every community is a gull gliding over a sea of spite, eager for carrion, all too ready to steal, and all too quick to squawk when stolen from.

That was the trouble of a consistency in moral affairs: holding yourself up to the measure you judge others by is three clicks past irritating.

The horror is having profound power in one hand and a strong moral sense in the other and absolutely no foundation to stand on.

Look at your mistakes long enough to learn from them, then put them behind you.