As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother… — 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 Copy Share Image
“As a child in poverty you never know that you're poor, the slums are the slums. They're home. They're what is. So… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There are no happy endings for such as us, Chella. No redemption. Not with our sins. Any joy is borrowed—laughter shared on… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The way to break the cycle is to kill every single one of the bastards that fucked you over. Every last one… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Tell me this," I said. "My world. It's not like the one I read about in the oldest books. When they talk… — Mark Lawrence 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
“He broke off his explanation, seeing in his daughter's eyes the exact moment that a child first understands there are limits on… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when… — Mark Lawrence 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.” — Mark Lawrence 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
