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Quote by Brent Weeks

“Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.”

Author

Brent Weeks, born on March 7, 1977, is a renowned fantasy author from the United States. His works are admired for their unique world-building and profound character development. more

“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”

“I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.”

Writing Materials

Author:Dan Brown

“A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.”

Men Freedom Atoms

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”

Facts Speak Differences Silence Break Broken Bridges

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.”

Believe Stills Pay Gone Youth Heroin

Book:Beat The Reaper

Source: Beat The Reaper

“out of the frying pan and into the fire”

Fire Frying Frying Pans

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.”