Quotes from The Black Prism

“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.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“You have to be a little bad to make history.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“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.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“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.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?”
“Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopeful.
“Because you’re an arrogant little shit.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Delayed justice was as bad as injustice.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“I am the stupidest person I have ever met.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“At some point, you have to decide not merely what you're going to believe, but how you're going to believe. Are you going to believe in people, or in ideas or in Orcholam? With your heart, or with your head? Will you believe what's in front of you, or in what you think you know? There are some things you think you know that are lies. I can't tell you what those are, and I'm sorry for that.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“I was a bad child. Fortunately, I’ve come a long way since then. Now I’m a bad man.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Charm is less effective on people who have good reason to kick your ass ”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Because we know ourselves. Because others obey us as though we were gods, and we know we’re not. We see the fragility of our own power, and through it we see the fragility of every other link. What if the Spectrum suddenly refused my orders? Not hard to imagine, when you consider the scheming and lust for power it takes to become a Color. What if a general suddenly refuses his satrap’s orders? What if a son refuses his father’s orders? What if that first link in the Great Chain of being—Orholam Himself—is as empty as every other link before him? Seeing the weakness of each link, we think the Great Chain itself is fragile: surely at any moment it will burst if we don’t do everything in our power to hold it together.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“He wasn’t afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying before he accomplished his purposes.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“It was the kind of beauty that made you shit your pants.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Sometimes lies are most necessary with our friends.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“Si tengo que dejar atrás todo lo que amo, me esforzaré para que valga la pena.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“¿Cuántas veces podía hacerte tanto daño una persona? [...] ¿Cuántos hombres vuelven de la guerra convertidos en mejores personas?
Ninguno, por lo visto.
¿Y cuántas mujeres aprenden de sus errores?
Esta no.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“¿Por qué arrasarían esos dos hombres el mundo entero, de lo contrario? ¿Por tus conocimientos de historia? ¿Por tu aguda conversación? No. Eras una chica bonita embellecida por los bardos en un intento por explicar lo que desencadenaste. No me malinterpretes -añadió-, estaba tan loco por ti que me pasaba las noches en vela. Fuiste mi primer gran amor no correspondido.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“As they were walked closer, Kip saw that his inference was correct: every single person here was a drafter. There had to be eight hundred or a thousand drafters here! “Orholam,” Karris breathed. “There must be five hundred drafters here.” So I can’t count, so what?”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

“No era justo. Después de tantos años, la belleza de una mujer no debería ser capaz de penetrar con tanta impunidad en el pecho de un hombre y de oprimirlo hasta arrebatarle el aliento. Sobre todo cuando jamás podría ser suya.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism

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