Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Brent Weeks

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

'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.

I’ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. I’ll wait until you think I’ve forgotten today. I’ll wait until you think it was just a dumb guild rat’s threat. After I’m a master, you’ll jump at shadows for a while. But after you jump a dozen times and I’m not there, you won’t jump just once, and that’s when I’ll be there. I don’t care if you kill me at the same time. I’ll trade my life for yours.

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

You will find no answers here, just choices.

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.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

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.

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.

Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice.” ~ Durzo Blint

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

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

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.

..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.

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

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

...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.

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

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

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

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

Light cannot be chained.

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.

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

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

"I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not." [...] "I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless." [...] "The coranti shall not go unpunished." [...] "My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility, nobility. In shame, honor. In darkness, light. I will do justice and love mercy."

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.

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.

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

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