“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
“Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“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… — 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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
“We weren't meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving. — Mark Lawrence 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 Copy Share Image
I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Although the fact that someone was lying face-down in the street gutter and leaking blood into it did detract somewhat from the… — 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
