“I don’t ask you to like reality. I only ask you to be strong enough to face it. There is nothing beyond this.”

— Brent Weeks, book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 24 (p. 201)

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American fiction writer 1977

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