The Broken Eye
Brent Weeks
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all.”
“This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.”
“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.”
“This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.”
“This is how tyrants fall. By destroying their people, they destroy themselves.”
“Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.”
“You got potential, Kip. And you know what potential means? he replied. “Ain’t done nothing yet.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.”
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