“I’ll lick a leper’s neck before I take a lung-full o’ your stench, Brother Row.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour. — Mark Lawrence Balance Copy Share Image
“I studied in the mathema, even pieced together a little of their door.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Men who are certain of everything—well perhaps they're not men at all.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The Queen of Red watched on, with Katherine and the Silent Sister, all three of them studying me as if I were… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.” — Mark Lawrence Character Copy Share Image
I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more. — Mark Lawrence Desire Copy Share Image
“Mountains are pretty at a distance, but my advice is to never let them get to be more than scenery.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She gave me a smile that left me wondering if I wanted to slap it off her, or kiss it.” — Mark Lawrence Smile Copy Share Image
“Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.” — Mark Lawrence Disasters Copy Share Image
“Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father’s bosom.… — Mark Lawrence Parenting Copy Share Image
“Beside me Makin looked to have retreated into that closed and lonely place that we all reach if we keep digging. Dig… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Hurt spreads and grows and reaches out to break what’s good. Time heals all wounds, but often it’s only by the application… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“If I think back on my successes, such as they are, they come as often as not from the simple exercise of… — Mark Lawrence Fitness Copy Share Image
“it never gets above a level of cold I call ‘fuck that’ – as in you open the door, your face freezes… — Mark Lawrence Cold Copy Share Image
“Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of… — Mark Lawrence Devil Copy Share Image
“I guess even at nine I had a serious lack of spiritual purity, for my wounds soured within two days, and for… — Mark Lawrence Dark dreams Copy Share Image
“Words are steps along a path: the important thing is to get where you're going. You can play by all manner of… — Mark Lawrence Lies Copy Share Image
“Until you realize what they are. They’re just ways to lose the game. You lose the game, and what have you lost?… — Mark Lawrence Football Copy Share Image
“To look into what will be isn’t unlike self-abuse. To watch yourself march through possibilities, to follow the truth through all those… — Mark Lawrence Hand holding Copy Share Image
“And in my experience, any monster that talks in a human voice, is human. Or was.” — Mark Lawrence Human voice Copy Share Image
We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths. — Mark Lawrence Fear Copy Share Image
“When a game cannot be won, change the game. I read that in the book of Kirk.” — Mark Lawrence Books Copy Share Image
“Christ Bleeding,” Makin said, staring into the valley below us. “How…” “Topology,” I said. “It’s a kind of magic.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't… — Mark Lawrence Alive Copy Share Image
“Hers the unvoiced everything of first love, tongue-tied, ineloquent, the refusal to sully so sharp and golden a feeling with anything as… — Mark Lawrence First love Copy Share Image
“We weren't meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.” — Mark Lawrence Change Copy Share Image
“Who judges? Who decides what truth is and which truths to hand out? We take to ourselves the power of the almighty… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Father Gomst will pray for your soul,” I said. “And forgive me the sins I incur in detaching it from your body.” — Mark Lawrence Parenting Copy Share Image
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“So what was that about?" Makin asked, striding up behind. "They shot my idiot," I said.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Man is doomed to repeat his mistakes time and again because he learns only from experience.” — Mark Lawrence Failure Copy Share Image