Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
7 quotes
"Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter."
"This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains."
"...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat."
"Every act intends some good."
"He is terribly bright; he is handsome; he is charming; and you have spoiled him horribly. In other words, he has all the makings of a true monster."
"..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you could do anything, so you probably did nothing, frozen with indecision."
"He kissed her. And she kissed him. And it was infatuation, and it was hunger, and it was longing to be loved, and it was an all-consuming fire so hot it devoured worry and loneliness and fear and time and being and thought itself. They kissed, embracing, flying, and for a hundred heartbeats, there was no war, no death, no pain, nothing hard, nothing terrible, nothing but warmth and acceptance."