Brent Weeks Quotes

Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there... no pun intended!

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

I have no issues with my identity.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.