Brent Weeks

Brent Weeks in 2012

Brent Weeks (born March 7, 1977) is an American fantasy writer.

Quotes

The Way of Shadows (2008)

All page numbers are from the mass market first American edition published by Orbit ISBN 978-0-316-03367-1, 26th printing

• Cruelty walked the Warrens holding hands with poverty and rage.
  • Chapter 5 (p. 30)

• “What do you want? Why am I here?” Rat asked.
  “Ah, petulance and philosophy all bound up in one.”
  • Chapter 8 (p. 52)

• It wouldn’t be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat.
  • Chapter 9 (p. 64)

• You aren’t making art, you’re making corpses. Dead is dead.
  • Chapter 12 (p. 92)

• A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it.
  • Chapter 13 (p. 99)

• You’re either being terrifically subtle or making no sense at all.
  • Chapter 13 (p. 100)

• Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.
  • Chapter 16 (p. 128)

• It may be beyond your comprehension, but I can hold power without using it.
  • Chapter 16 (p. 130)

• See, you get caught up in the past and you become useless to the present.
  • Chapter 18 (p. 144)

• Agon wondered what god Cenaria had offended to deserve such a king.
  • Chapter 20 (p. 158)

• So he wasn’t dead. That was probably supposed to be a good thing.
  • Chapter 22 (p. 171)

• “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.
  • Chapter 24 (p. 201)

• 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?
  • Chapter 32 (p. 277)

• 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.
  • Chapter 33 (p. 282)

• They’re schemers, so they see schemes.
  • Chapter 38 (p. 325)

• 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.
  • Chapter 45 (pp. 400-401)

• “Here I thought they were invincible.”
  “They’re immortal. It’s not the same thing.”
  • Chapter 49 (p. 451)

• “I used to believe a lot of things. That doesn’t make them true,” Durzo said.
  • Chapter 56 (p. 524)

• 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.
  • Chapter 60 (pp. 570-571)