“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
A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. — 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
“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’d be happier on a horse,” Makin said. “I’d be happier on a giant mountain goat,” I said. “One that shat diamonds.… — Mark Lawrence Caprice Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to carry a weight of news with none to tell and days ahead before you can release it. Good news… — Mark Lawrence Good news Copy Share Image
“Clarity of vision is a thing much prized. I find when you turn that clear sight upon yourself—and see through to the… — Mark Lawrence Clarity Copy Share Image
“I followed but I held my tongue. I'd seen children tag after grown men throwing question after question, but I had put… — Mark Lawrence Children Copy Share Image
“If he told me something about the glories ahead for the Prince of Arrow I would have trouble restraining myself. If he… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you… — Mark Lawrence 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
“Brother Row you could trust to make a long shot with a short bow. You could trust him to come out of… — Mark Lawrence Brother Copy Share Image
“Alaric waited. It’s a good enough trick. Say nothing and men feel compelled to fill the silence, even if it’s with things… — Mark Lawrence Good enough Copy Share Image
“I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his… — Mark Lawrence Epic Copy Share Image
“I watched her backside as she went. I thought perhaps I wouldn't die if I could still find time to watch a… — Mark Lawrence Time Copy Share Image
Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I… — Mark Lawrence Angel Copy Share Image
“When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her… — Mark Lawrence Feminism Copy Share Image
“Many men do not look their part. Wisdom may wait behind a foolish smile, bravery can gaze from eyes that cry fright.” — Mark Lawrence Bravery Copy Share Image
“The bladder-pipe, a local Highlands speciality, is to music what warthogs are to mathematics. Largely unconnected.” — Mark Lawrence Highlands Copy Share Image
“I wondered if he was drunk. That's when I tended to speak profundities to the night.” — Mark Lawrence Drunk Copy Share Image
“My own opinion is that if I keep juggling, then all the balls will stay in the air and my comeuppance will… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A victim who believes himself anticipated at every turn is not only crippled by uncertainty but also easier to predict.” — Mark Lawrence Doubt Copy Share Image
Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was… — Mark Lawrence Experience Copy Share Image
“No sense of satisfaction, but my uncle’s death had taught me that revenge is far less sweet than it promises to be.… — Mark Lawrence Death Copy Share Image
“And what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to gods than we… — Mark Lawrence Time Copy Share Image
“Is this going to be one of those times when you pretend not to have a plan until the last moment? And… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I laughed at them. Not because I thought they had no power to harm me, but because they had.” — Mark Lawrence Comedy Copy Share Image
“Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.” — Mark Lawrence Language Copy Share Image
“Men are busy dying from the moment they’re born but it’s a crawl from the cradle to the grave.” — Mark Lawrence Death Copy Share Image
“There’s something magical about a departed headache. It’s a shame the joy fades and you can’t appreciate not having one every moment… — Mark Lawrence Departed Copy Share Image
“I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing… — Mark Lawrence The-broken-empire Copy Share Image
“It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.” — Mark Lawrence Blank page Copy Share Image
“I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“North of Hardanger the children would run naked in warm rains like these. We don't sew our bearskins on until the sea… — Mark Lawrence Children Copy Share Image
“She met my gaze and the light dazzled, but I wouldn’t look away. “Your choices are keys to doors I cannot see… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
