“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.” — Mark Lawrence Fire Copy Share Image
“Tents are boasters, telling exaggerated tales of the weather they save you from.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Makin once told me that a man who's got no fear is missing a friend.” — Mark Lawrence Fear Copy Share Image
“Fear helps a man pick his fights. You’re fighting them all, my prince.” — Mark Lawrence Fear Copy Share Image
“We’re wild things us men, and when we remember it we’re at our most dangerous.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It’s full of hungry people. And hungry people are dangerous people.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have… — Mark Lawrence Castles Copy Share Image
“The fascination that lives on the keenest edge, and sparkles on the sharpest point, also gathers in depths of a fall.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Orrin of Arrow might have given them bread. He might have resolved to change this place. I just walk through it. Later… — Mark Lawrence Bread Copy Share Image
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win… — Mark Lawrence Battle Copy Share Image
“I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, I'll be fucked if… — Mark Lawrence Fear Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.” — Mark Lawrence Decadence Copy Share Image
“Cowards should be treated with respect. Cowards best know how to hurt. Corner one at your peril.” — Mark Lawrence Cowards Copy Share Image
“The seris thought of human love as clouds coming together, sometimes brushing one to another, sometimes building to a storm, sometimes lost… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way.… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There is, in the act o destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build… — Mark Lawrence Beauty Copy Share Image
“With Snorri troubles were always put front and centre and dealt with. My style was more to shove them under the rug… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“This is where it starts. When they write the legend, this will be the first page. Some old monk will go blind… — Mark Lawrence Book Copy Share Image
“Why would you do that?” I asked as he gasped. “Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?” I walked… — Mark Lawrence Technology Copy Share Image
“The pain became my enemy. More than the Count Renar, more than my father's bartering with lives he should have held more… — Mark Lawrence Pain 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 Ragnarok 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 Game Copy Share Image
For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Still the music, the deep slow melody, the high and broken counterpoint, as if the mountains themselves had become the score, as… — Mark Lawrence Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
“Here.’ I held out a silver crown between two fingers to take his mind off it. ‘You can have this coin, or,… — Mark Lawrence Wise man Copy Share Image
“This is where the wise man turns away. This is where the holy kneel and call on God. These are the last… — Mark Lawrence Break your heart Copy Share Image
“When you're moving in a dark and haunted forest the urge is for every step to be taken more quickly than the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“On the final stretch of the road we passed three or four hammer-stones set on the verges to honour the thunder-god. Snorri… — Mark Lawrence Journey Copy Share Image
It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war. — Mark Lawrence Irony Copy Share Image
