“The way to break the cycle is to kill every single one of the bastards that fucked you over. Every last one of them. Kill them all. Kill their mother, kill their brothers, kill their children, kill their dog.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“I've been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“And that’s the riddle of existence for you. When to move and when to stay. Dwell too long and we become the prisoner of… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
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
“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with science and… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“A time of terror comes. A dark time. The graves continue to open and the Dead King prepares to sail.But the world holds worse… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“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 and foolish… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives—the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“This is a bad idea." "If you ever stop saying that, I'll know it's time to start worrying.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
