Brent Weeks

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

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)