The Black Prism Quotes

“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.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?”
“Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopeful.
“Because you’re an arrogant little shit.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“You have to be a little bad to make history.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Light cannot be chained.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“I was a bad child. Fortunately, I’ve come a long way since then. Now I’m a bad man.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“I am the stupidest person I have ever met.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“All power is a test.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Delayed justice was as bad as injustice.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“At some point, you have to decide not merely what you're going to believe, but how you're going to believe. Are you going to believe in people, or in ideas or in Orcholam? With your heart, or with your head? Will you believe what's in front of you, or in what you think you know? There are some things you think you know that are lies. I can't tell you what those are, and I'm sorry for that.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“He wasn’t afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying before he accomplished his purposes.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Charm is less effective on people who have good reason to kick your ass ”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“It was the kind of beauty that made you shit your pants.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Because we know ourselves. Because others obey us as though we were gods, and we know we’re not. We see the fragility of our own power, and through it we see the fragility of every other link. What if the Spectrum suddenly refused my orders? Not hard to imagine, when you consider the scheming and lust for power it takes to become a Color. What if a general suddenly refuses his satrap’s orders? What if a son refuses his father’s orders? What if that first link in the Great Chain of being—Orholam Himself—is as empty as every other link before him? Seeing the weakness of each link, we think the Great Chain itself is fragile: surely at any moment it will burst if we don’t do everything in our power to hold it together.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Sometimes lies are most necessary with our friends.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“After years of knowing her, a woman’s beauty shouldn’t be able to reach straight into a man’s chest and squeeze the breath out of him. Especially not when he could never have her.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“As they were walked closer, Kip saw that his inference was correct: every single person here was a drafter. There had to be eight hundred or a thousand drafters here! “Orholam,” Karris breathed. “There must be five hundred drafters here.” So I can’t count, so what?”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Si tengo que dejar atrás todo lo que amo, me esforzaré para que valga la pena.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Tell me, Kip, if you’ve done bad things your whole life, but you die doing something good, do you think that makes up for all the bad?”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“How well do you know yourself?” He thought about the years, the goals he’d achieved, and the ultimate goal it was serving. “The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster,” Gavin said. “I’m no god.” She stared at him for one moment more, those intense blue eyes unreadable. She smiled. “Well then. Maybe the times call for a monster.” She knelt at his feet, and he blessed her.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism