296 Quotes by Brent Weeks

They were intent, utterly focused, fearful of letting the commander down, but not fearful. He had them heart and soul and strength, not because he gave them a respect they didn’t deserve, but because he expected them to deliver the best they were able to deliver, always, and he thought their best was better than they thought it was. This was a great man in action. It was a quiet greatness.

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.

This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.

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.

Why do men walk to the edge of a chasm? Is the view so different, right at the edge, than it is two steps back? They walk to the edge because it scares them.

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

It’s easier to build a new culture on the graves of the dead than around the homes of the living.

The man loved language the way a wife beater loves his wife.

They made it so that we can’t change it from within. They made it so we must kill to break it. If we be monsters, we’re monsters made in their image.