Durzo Blint Quotes

“I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless. The coranti shall not go unpunished. My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility nobility. In shame honor. In darkness light. I will do justice and love mercy. Until the king returns I shall not lay my burden down.”

--(Durzo Blint to Jorses Alkestes, quoted to Skylar at the edge of Ezra's Forest.)”
― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows

“I don’t ask you to like reality. I only ask you to be strong enough to face it. There is nothing beyond this. There is only the perfection we attain by becoming weapons, as strong and merciless as a sword. There is no essential good in living. Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justification. There is no justice.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“I don’t ask you to like reality. I only ask you to be strong enough to face it.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“They were mirrors to each other. Gwinvere Kirena would have been perfect for him—if he could love what he saw in the mirror.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“Is that all your life is?” Kylar asked, finally looking up. “Tests and challenges?”

“My life? That’s all life is.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we aren’t taking anything of value.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“Embrace the shadows. . . .Breathe the silence. . . . Be ordinary, be invisible. . . . Mark the man. . . . Know every out. . . .”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“When you know a man’s secrets, you have power over him. A man’s secret is his weakness. Every man has a weakness, no matter . . .”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“Ashes. Ashes, and blood, and nothing more.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows