296 Quotes by Brent Weeks

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

Slavery. Nature made not slaves, nor should man.

Slavery, a curse that corrupts those on both sides.

You'll fight. You'll die. And I'll miss you.

Gifted? I'm skilled. People call others "gifted" when they don't want to believe they're worse at something because they're not willing to put in the work excellence requires.

For beauty isn't passive; beauty acts upon its beholder, moving and changing him. Line up ten paintings of different women by the same artist and ten men might agree which subject is the most beautiful. But let those men and women mingle for an evening, and duels might be fought over the same question, with no one lying in either case, and each convinced of the rightness of his judgement.

Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?