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The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3) QUOTES

The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3) QUOTES

1 " Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

2 " This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

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

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

4 " He is terribly bright; he is handsome; he is charming; and you have spoiled him horribly. In other words, he has all the makings of a true monster. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

5 " Every act intends some good. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

6 " ..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you could do anything, so you probably did nothing, frozen with indecision. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

7 " He kissed her. And she kissed him. And it was infatuation, and it was hunger, and it was longing to be loved, and it was an all-consuming fire so hot it devoured worry and loneliness and fear and time and being and thought itself. They kissed, embracing, flying, and for a hundred heartbeats, there was no war, no death, no pain, nothing hard, nothing terrible, nothing but warmth and acceptance. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

8 " War is the cause, everything else is the result. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

9 " Wojna jest przyczyną, wszystko inne jest skutkiem. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

10 " I am of you," said Kip."I am Guile as much as you are. True, I have a scrap of decency, but only a scrap. How do you think you can treat a Guile with such disregard and get away with it? Because I am you. I'm as cold as you, I'm as smart as you, and when you push me, I'm as evil and cruel as you. I have a thin film of goodness floating on the top of my Guile, grandfather, but I don't know how senile you must be to miss just how thin it is. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

11 " Orholam,” Gavin said, “do I have your full attention?” “Always.” “Good.” He cracked his neck right and left. “Because fuck you.” He dove into the water. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

12 " We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

13 " Don’t judge a man by what he says his ideals are, judge him by what he does. Look at what the Color Prince has done. They’re wrong, Teia. They’re liars and murderers. It doesn’t mean everything we do is right. It doesn’t mean our house doesn’t need a thorough cleaning. I just don’t think we need to burn it to the ground to do it. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

14 " This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

15 " This is how tyrants fall. By destroying their people, they destroy themselves. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

16 " You got potential, Kip.
And you know what potential means? he replied.
“Ain’t done nothing yet. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

17 " 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. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

18 " The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

19 " The choice to give up bitterness is not easy, but it is simple: peace or poison. And don't wait until you feel like making it. You never will. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)

20 " Perhaps great men are content with marrying a woman who is not their equal, but we great women … Our equals are rare enough in the first place, and then most of those we do find have married twits. "

― Brent Weeks , The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3)