Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

Brent Weeks

Categorized in : You Good Story Yourself

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

sin nihilism men

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a sp... by Brent Weeks

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

player worry trying

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

powerful kind stupid

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 justice.” ~ Durzo Blint

winning justice mean

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

armor remember

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. by Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

ugliness hours moments

Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.

wedding husband flower

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing. by Brent Weeks

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

delusional believe people

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it by Brent Weeks

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

strong reality needs

You have to be a little bad to make history. by Brent Weeks

You have to be a little bad to make history.

littles

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

worthless empty-life life-is

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything. by Brent Weeks

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

get-away ifs busy

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

trying men thinking

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

doe book people

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint by Brent Weeks

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

madness love-is

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m n... by Brent Weeks

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

dolls girl secret

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

abiding shadow dream

Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

broken real simple

How can one love the light and live in darkness? by Brent Weeks

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

one-love light darkness

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be... by Brent Weeks

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

beautiful-girl girl beautiful