Brent Weeks

"So he wasn’t dead. That was probably supposed to be a good thing."

"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?"

"It may be beyond your comprehension, but I can hold power without using it."

"You aren’t making art, you’re making corpses. Dead is dead."

"You’re either being terrifically subtle or making no sense at all."

"Cruelty walked the Warrens holding hands with poverty and rage."

"See, you get caught up in the past and you become useless to the present."

"Agon wondered what god Cenaria had offended to deserve such a king."

"A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it."

"“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."

"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."

"Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future."