There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends. — Mark Lawrence Bends Copy Share Image
“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.” — Mark Lawrence History Copy Share Image
“What made my loss, my pain, any more important than everyone else's.” — Mark Lawrence Death Copy Share Image
“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.” — Mark Lawrence Fire Copy Share Image
“Tents are boasters, telling exaggerated tales of the weather they save you from.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Makin once told me that a man who's got no fear is missing a friend.” — Mark Lawrence Fear Copy Share Image
“Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we… — Mark Lawrence Foolishness 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
It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have… — Mark Lawrence Castles Copy Share Image
“Orrin of Arrow might have given them bread. He might have resolved to change this place. I just walk through it. Later… — Mark Lawrence Bread Copy Share Image
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win… — Mark Lawrence Battle Copy Share Image
“I fell into unconsciousness reflecting rather abstractly that I'd never even known that there were two bones in a man's forearm.” — Mark Lawrence Unconsciousness Copy Share Image
“When all you have to look at is white, given time you will see a symphony in shades of pale.” — Mark Lawrence Symphony Copy Share Image
“Enjoy the world while you can I say. A shallow enough philosophy by which to live, but shallow is what I've got.… — Mark Lawrence Drown Copy Share Image
“What's it going to take for you to open that door? Gold? Blood?" "Your name and password." "My name is Honorous Jorg… — Mark Lawrence Humor Copy Share Image
“An echo of his misery rang in me and confused itself with my own. That tear might have been for little Emy… — Mark Lawrence Misery Copy Share Image
“I have given him something neither of you can take. You can ask and he may allow because he loves this land… — Mark Lawrence Allow Copy Share Image
“Three months previously I had entered the Haunt alone, covered in blood that was not my own and swinging a stolen sword.… — Mark Lawrence Three months Copy Share Image
“Nights spent on mountains are not to be recommended. Nights where the dark is full of the sounds of dead men trying… — Mark Lawrence Dark Copy Share Image
I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own… — Mark Lawrence Born Copy Share Image
“I swallowed darkness, and darkness swallowed me. Without light, without the beat if a heart to count the time, you learn that… — Mark Lawrence Alone in the dark Copy Share Image
I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way.… — Mark Lawrence Bigs Copy Share Image
“Below is a conversation between Jorg and his new bride. "The Prince of Arrow has a much bigger army than you," Miana… — Mark Lawrence Communication Copy Share Image
“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it. Heroes on the other hand, they make terrible torturers.… — Mark Lawrence Cowards Copy Share Image
“The physicists called it an adjustment of quantum emphasis. But the effect was to change the role of the observer. Of you… — Mark Lawrence Change the world Copy Share Image
“We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentor what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And… — Mark Lawrence Better man Copy Share Image
“Her death didn’t feel real yet. Nona stood there, casting no shadow, and found she could feel nothing for her friend. Some… — Mark Lawrence Death Copy Share Image
“I dropped the head and kicked it into the crowd. I say “kicked” but in truth it’s a bad idea to kick… — Mark Lawrence Bad idea Copy Share Image
“Still the music, the deep slow melody, the high and broken counterpoint, as if the mountains themselves had become the score, as… — Mark Lawrence Beautiful writing 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 Bloody Copy Share Image
