Brent Weeks Quotes
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.
Weeks, Brent. The Way of Shadows. Orbit, 2008.
1st Baron Macaulay
In some nations like Holland medically assisted suicide us not only legal but is considered a moral course of action. In other nations it is illegal, but most individual physicians will assist a dying patient in terrible pain by increasing the dosage of pain killers which relives pain but also speeds death. In the US the individual states have different laws and rules. What can be a humanitarian action in one state, can be a felony in another. That is what happened to Kervorkian who served a long prison sentence for doing what the family and deceased begged him to do and would be legal and moral in another state.
Later, in 1973, he himself was denounced and sentenced to the guillotine. When he was sentenced, hecklers asked him if his blood was too pure for execution throwing his quotation back at him.
Brent Weeks is an American fantasy writer. His debut novel, The Way of Shadows, was a New York Times Best Seller in April 2009. Each of the five books in his Lightbringer Series made the NYT list as well, starting with The Black Prism in 2010. He lives and works near Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kristi, and their two daughters.
