It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In battle though his hands grow clever, and you'd think him whole, until the din fades, the dying fall, and Maical wanders… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The world is changing, moving beneath our feet. We are in a war, children of the Red March, though you may not… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“War is a red haze punctuated by horror and death. It's a sequence of things that no human should ever have to… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Ragnarok. Is that all the North ever thinks about? Is that what you want, Snorri? Some great battle and the world ruined… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And why did they choose to follow me? Why did you?" I asked… "I follow you because I'm tired of war. I… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“I've been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“And that’s the riddle of existence for you. When to move and when to stay. Dwell too long and we become the prisoner of… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with science and… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“A time of terror comes. A dark time. The graves continue to open and the Dead King prepares to sail.But the world holds worse… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“I didn't ask anything—I hadn't the words. Instead I spoke the smallest one—the one I should have used more in my short and foolish… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives—the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“This is a bad idea." "If you ever stop saying that, I'll know it's time to start worrying.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
