“But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away… — 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
“We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.” — 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
“We weren't meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And what is it you think I'm so good at?" I asked. He shrugged. "Playing a role. Filling in for lost years… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“When pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentor what he wants… — 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
“All men will dig their heels in if pushed enough. All men will reach the point that they say "no" for no… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.” — 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
“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
