296 Quotes by Brent Weeks

You can’t understand a God who’s all mercy and no justice. That cute, fuzzy God wouldn’t last two minutes in the Warrens, would he?

Knowing I would die for you, how would you live if you were worthy of that sacrifice? Live that way.

When you have lived either a very short time or a very long time – if you’ve lived well – you will be able to love easily, too. Broken hearts have fresh places to bond with new faces.

Idealists mature badly. If they can’t outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind.

Do you know what you can do to an enemy but not to a friend? Stab her in the back.

Some say, ‘Who you are is what you do.’ They’re wrong, but not all wrong. What you do forms who you are. Then who you are forms what you do. It’s a vicious cycle, or a virtuous one, depending. One act doesn’t undo all of who you are, but a thousand acts make you who you are. So it’s simple, though not easy: stop creating the wrong you.

The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster. I’m no god.

Magic requires will, but words shape will, turn it, direct it, reflect it from one target to another.

Survivors are willing to make sacrifices.