“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.” — Mark Lawrence Assassination 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
“Truth is an axe. Without judgement it’s swung in great circles, wounding everybody,” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The fascination that lives on the keenest edge, and sparkles on the sharpest point, also gathers in depths of a fall.” — Mark Lawrence Fall Copy Share Image
“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.” — Mark Lawrence Fire 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 Betray Copy Share Image
“Cowards should be treated with respect. Cowards best know how to hurt. Corner one at your peril.” — Mark Lawrence Cowards Copy Share Image
“This is a bad idea." "If you ever stop saying that, I'll know it's time to start worrying.” — Mark Lawrence Bad idea Copy Share Image
“The way I’d put it,” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of… — Mark Lawrence Gore Copy Share Image
You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you… — Mark Lawrence Leader 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 Watched 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
“Bravery may be observed when a person tramples one fear whilst in secret flight from a greater terror. And those whose greatest… — Mark Lawrence Bravery 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 Journey 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 Copy Share Image
“When you're moving in a dark and haunted forest the urge is for every step to be taken more quickly than the… — Mark Lawrence Every step Copy Share Image
“In a duel, man to man, sword against sword, it can be a lack of skill that gets you killed. Often as… — Mark Lawrence Dueling Copy Share Image
“it remains for me to remind you that no matter what conditions you may face on your ranging, no matter what the… — Mark Lawrence Remember 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… — Mark Lawrence Complete honesty Copy Share Image
“And why did they choose to follow me? Why did you?" I asked… "I follow you because I'm tired of war. I… — Mark Lawrence Badass 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… — Mark Lawrence Doing good Copy Share Image
“The Lights..." said Norv the Raw, as if we might not have noticed. Before any further statements of the obvious could be… — Mark Lawrence Doors 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 Amber Copy Share Image
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 Bitterness Copy Share Image
It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh — Mark Lawrence Corruption Copy Share Image
“Men who are certain of everything—well perhaps they're not men at all.” — Mark Lawrence The-broken-empire Copy Share Image
“The bladder-pipe, a local Highlands speciality, is to music what warthogs are to mathematics. Largely unconnected.” — Mark Lawrence Music 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
something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was. — Mark Lawrence Broken Copy Share Image
If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice. — Mark Lawrence Cowardice Copy Share Image
