“After all, getting everything you wish for is nearly as dire a curse as having all your dreams come true.” — Mark Lawrence Curse Copy Share Image
“Killing takes space. You need to move, to advance, to withdraw, and sometimes to just plain run for it.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I feel as though I'm playing a part like those mummers who travel the roads, only I don't know the worlds properly,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Truth is an axe. Without judgement it’s swung in great circles, wounding everybody,” — Mark Lawrence Truth Copy Share Image
“We're fashioned by our sorrows - not by joy - they are the undercurrent, the refrain. Joy is fleeting.” — Mark Lawrence Dark fantasy Copy Share Image
“And in the moments of rest, when we orphans faced each other, mud-cheeked, leaning on our forks, there's a camaraderie that builds… — Mark Lawrence Camaraderie Copy Share Image
“How do you stand the pain?” I ask. “It’s just pain.” He shrugs. His white cloak, smeared with dust, sticks to him… — Mark Lawrence Pain Copy Share Image
“I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh-so-narrow slice between that… — Mark Lawrence Memories Copy Share Image
“Weakness is a contagion, one breath of it can corrupt a man whole and entire. Now though, even with all the evil… — Mark Lawrence Weakness Copy Share Image
“All men will dig their heels in if pushed enough. All men will reach the point that they say "no" for no… — Mark Lawrence The-broken-empire Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away… — Mark Lawrence Hard lessons Copy Share Image
“Heaven, hell, and earth, three that are one-- there can be no change above or below that isn't mirrored here. This world,… — Mark Lawrence Change Copy Share Image
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the… — Mark Lawrence Agreement Copy Share Image
“A time of terror comes. A dark time. The graves continue to open and the Dead King prepares to sail.But the world… — Mark Lawrence Dark time Copy Share Image
“I held my arms wide to the rain. I could feel it beat on me. I didn’t have so many years under… — Mark Lawrence Rain Copy Share Image
There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with… — Mark Lawrence Clever Copy Share Image
“That's not a plan. That's a way to get a death so famously stupid that they'll be laughing about it in alehouses… — Mark Lawrence Comedy Copy Share Image
“In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives—the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.” — Mark Lawrence Climber Copy Share Image
“Maeres’s companion, though, he looked like the sort of man who would drown kittens recreationally.” — Mark Lawrence Mind Copy Share Image
Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only… — Mark Lawrence Men Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.” — Mark Lawrence Memories Copy Share Image
“Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.” — Mark Lawrence Fear Copy Share Image
“The knife felt like hot iron in my fist. I hated myself for what I was going to do, and just as… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or… — Mark Lawrence Beginning Copy Share Image
Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you. — Mark Lawrence Desire Copy Share Image
“Climb a mountain, see the world from its highest point and a new man will climb down” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable… — Mark Lawrence Burdens Copy Share Image
A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding… — Mark Lawrence Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
“Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.” — Mark Lawrence Life Copy Share Image
“I took him to be about thirty, but it's hard to tell with fat people: they've no skin spare for wrinkles.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where… — Mark Lawrence Happiness Copy Share Image
“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… — Mark Lawrence Language Copy Share Image
“Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with… — Mark Lawrence Funny but true Copy Share Image
“Climb a mountain, see the world from its highest point, and a new man will climb down to a world of subtle… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“My traditional moment of triumph at escaping yet again was curtailed by a muscular arm that reached from the darkness and yanked… — Mark Lawrence Time Copy Share Image
“It's good to steer a man in the direction he intended to go. It blurs the line between what he wants and… — Mark Lawrence Direction 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 Mind Copy Share Image
“Some men name their swords. I've always found that a strange affection. If I had to call it something I would all… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
