“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“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 and foolish… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives—the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
“This is a bad idea." "If you ever stop saying that, I'll know it's time to start worrying.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share
