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1 " The perfect killer has no conscience. "
― Brent Weeks , Beyond the Shadows (Night Angel, #3)
2 " 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. Until the king returns I shall not lay my burden down.”--(Durzo Blint to Jorses Alkestes, quoted to Skylar at the edge of Ezra's Forest.) "
3 " I'm not dreaming this, am I?" he asked.Dehvi lifted an eyebrow. "There's only one way to know for sure," he said.What's that?"Go piss in the woods. If you feel wet and warm afterward, wake up. "
4 " 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. "
5 " 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. "
6 " ...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. "
7 " You damn fool. You realize, even if all your assumptions are correct-even then, you still have to steal the world's most coveted sword from the world's safest place then be pursued by the ultimate hunter until you reach the heart of an enemy country in the middle of a war in which any side will happily kill you as a traitor, a spy, a wytch, or all three?""I thought you'd like it. "
8 " Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard. "
9 " It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin. "
10 " That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good. "
11 " 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."? "
12 " when you deal with human beings, never count on logic or consistency. "
13 " Durzo cleared his throat. "I've got bad news... Life being unfair and all that...""Oh, great. What is it?" [replied Kylar]"Luc Graesin? Kid you died on the wheel to save?""It was more for Logan than for Luc, but what about Luc?""Hanged himself," Durzo said...."Are you joking? After what I did for him? That asshole! "
14 " 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. "
15 " An oath you only keep when it's convenient isn't an oath at all. "
16 " ... a man who denies what is essential to his being is a man who drills holes in the cup of his own happiness. "
17 " You’re amazing,” Kylar said.~I know.~“Humble, too. "
18 " Growing old with the woman I love would be my first choice, but dying reconciled with her isn't a bad second. "
19 " To be king means to accept that others will pay the price of your failures -- and even your successes. "
20 " A king made choices for other people based on information they didn't have. That was the burden of rule. "
