“When all you have to look at is white, given time you will see a symphony in shades of pale.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“This is a bad idea." "If you ever stop saying that, I'll know it's time to start worrying.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Man is doomed to repeat his mistakes time and again because he learns only from experience.” — 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
You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father’s bosom.… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I showed him the empty time where my memory won’t go. I let him look there. He ran from me then. He… — 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
“My traditional moment of triumph at escaping yet again was curtailed by a muscular arm that reached from the darkness and yanked… — 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’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I… — Mark Lawrence 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 Copy Share Image
“Hurt spreads and grows and reaches out to break what’s good. Time heals all wounds, but often it’s only by the application… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“He broke off his explanation, seeing in his daughter's eyes the exact moment that a child first understands there are limits on… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you… — 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
As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother… — 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 what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to gods than we… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I watched her backside as she went. I thought perhaps I wouldn't die if I could still find time to watch a… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Is this going to be one of those times when you pretend not to have a plan until the last moment? And… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Men are busy dying from the moment they’re born but it’s a crawl from the cradle to the grave.” — 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
“A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time… — 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
