Mark Lawrence

“Pretty much everything exploded.”

— Mark Lawrence

You're a Good Little Slave

— Mark Lawrence

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

— Mark Lawrence

“I was more ass than assassin.”

— Mark Lawrence

“That was a mistake. They were my few.”

— Mark Lawrence

“If it offends you. Stop me.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Even Eden had a snake problem. The”

— Mark Lawrence

“War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.”

— Mark Lawrence

There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.

— Mark Lawrence

“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Bravery is just a different kind of broken.”

— Mark Lawrence

“winners may be admired but they are not liked.”

— Mark Lawrence

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

— Mark Lawrence

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

— Mark Lawrence

“Of course you have a boat. You're a Viking.”

— Mark Lawrence

“What made my loss, my pain, any more important than everyone else's.”

— Mark Lawrence

“I fell into unconsciousness reflecting rather abstractly that I'd never even known that there were two bones in a man's forearm.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Angry at being angry—there’s a worm that will eat its tail and no mistake. I should have Oroborus on my family crest.”

— Mark Lawrence

“When all you have to look at is white, given time you will see a symphony in shades of pale.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Enjoy the world while you can I say. A shallow enough philosophy by which to live, but shallow is what I've got.…

— Mark Lawrence

You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly…

— Mark Lawrence

“Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Not going to die here. Swing low to cut off those reaching hands. These bastards don't even feel it. The bitch felt…

— Mark Lawrence

“Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we…

— Mark Lawrence

“An echo of his misery rang in me and confused itself with my own. That tear might have been for little Emy…

— Mark Lawrence

“I have given him something neither of you can take. You can ask and he may allow because he loves this land…

— Mark Lawrence

“What's it going to take for you to open that door? Gold? Blood?" "Your name and password." "My name is Honorous Jorg…

— Mark Lawrence

“Nights spent on mountains are not to be recommended. Nights where the dark is full of the sounds of dead men trying…

— Mark Lawrence

I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own…

— Mark Lawrence

“I swallowed darkness, and darkness swallowed me. Without light, without the beat if a heart to count the time, you learn that…

— Mark Lawrence

“Three months previously I had entered the Haunt alone, covered in blood that was not my own and swinging a stolen sword.…

— Mark Lawrence

Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison…

— Mark Lawrence

“Below is a conversation between Jorg and his new bride. "The Prince of Arrow has a much bigger army than you," Miana…

— Mark Lawrence

“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it. Heroes on the other hand, they make terrible torturers.…

— Mark Lawrence

“We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentor what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And…

— Mark Lawrence

“Her death didn’t feel real yet. Nona stood there, casting no shadow, and found she could feel nothing for her friend. Some…

— Mark Lawrence

“And what is it you think I'm so good at?" I asked. He shrugged. "Playing a role. Filling in for lost years…

— Mark Lawrence

“The physicists called it an adjustment of quantum emphasis. But the effect was to change the role of the observer. Of you…

— Mark Lawrence

“When pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentor what he wants…

— Mark Lawrence

“I dropped the head and kicked it into the crowd. I say “kicked” but in truth it’s a bad idea to kick…

— Mark Lawrence