Quotes from book
The Way of Shadows

Name: The Way of Shadows
Author: Brent Weeks

Brent Weeks

“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)

“Its limbs were loose, graceless, lying in an uncomfortable position. Unmoving. Just like any corpse. In life, every man was unique. In death every man was meat.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 60 (pp. 570-571)

““I used to believe a lot of things. That doesn’t make them true,” Durzo said.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 56 (p. 524)

“Here I thought they were invincible.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

“They’re immortal. It’s not the same thing.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 49 (p. 451)

“Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder. But certain realities have a way of making themselves felt, and debt is one of them.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 45 (pp. 400-401)

“They’re schemers, so they see schemes.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 38 (p. 325)

“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.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 33 (p. 282)

“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?”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 32 (p. 277)

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

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 22 (p. 171)

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

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 18 (p. 144)

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

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 130)

“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 128)

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

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 100)

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

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 99)

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

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 12 (p. 92)

“It wouldn’t be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 9 (p. 64)

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