Brent Weeks quotes:

The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it's a story of normal brothers - who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances.

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.

Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come.

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint

It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too.

There was a nice dilemma. How does one interject into a polite conversation, "By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."?

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.

The perfect killer has no conscience.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

The perfect killer has no identity.

Yes," Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. "Kylar thinks... Kylar fears that he's a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He's not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.

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

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

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

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.

There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.

Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

You will find no answers here, just choices.

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

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.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists,

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.

Elene gasped and sat up. "Kylar Thaddeus Stern!" Kylar giggled. "Thaddeus? That's a good one. I knew a Thaddeus once." "So did I. He was a blind idiot." "Really?" Kylar said, his eyes dancing. "The one I knew was famous for his gigantic-" "Kylar!" Elene interrupted, motioning toward Uly. "His gigantic what?" Uly asked. "Now you did it." Elene said, "His gigantic what, Kyler?" "Feet. And you know what they say about big feet." He winked lasciviously at Elene. "What?" Uly asked. "Big Shoes," Kylar said.

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

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.

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Light cannot be chained.

Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose. He flipped the coin. It bounced on the table and, impossibly, landed on edge. There´s always another choice, Kylar said.

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?...