“What made my loss, my pain, any more important than everyone else's.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Men who are certain of everything—well perhaps they're not men at all.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives—the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.” — Mark Lawrence 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 Copy Share Image
“Many men do not look their part. Wisdom may wait behind a foolish smile, bravery can gaze from eyes that cry fright.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There are truths you know but will not speak. Even to yourself in the darkness where we are all of us alone.… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I kept my voice calm. It wasn't hard, I was calm. Anger carries less horror with it, men understand anger. It promises… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But I respected his instincts as a killer and I liked the honesty of the man. And who was I to judge?… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And in the moments of rest, when we orphans faced each other, mud-cheeked, leaning on our forks, there's a camaraderie that builds… — 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… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The knife felt like hot iron in my fist. I hated myself for what I was going to do, and just as… — 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
“Clarity of vision is a thing much prized. I find when you turn that clear sight upon yourself—and see through to the… — Mark Lawrence 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Brother Row you could trust to make a long shot with a short bow. You could trust him to come out of… — Mark Lawrence 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 Copy Share Image
“I wondered once if Corion had put that sickness in me, if I were the tool and he the architect of that… — Mark Lawrence 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 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
“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“We rode in silence for a while and I wondered if men were the world's leaves. If as we aged the world… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I took the Nuban's bow. I didn't trust the midget to be able to run down any thieves, and besides, I might… — Mark Lawrence 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 Copy Share Image
“When you've committed yourself to violence it takes an almost inhuman effort to stop short. It's one of those things that once… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, I'll be fucked if… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The pain became my enemy. More than the Count Renar, more than my father's bartering with lives he should have held more… — 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
“That's not a plan. That's a way to get a death so famously stupid that they'll be laughing about it in alehouses… — 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
