Mark Lawrence Quotes

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• You're a Good Little Slave
• There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
• Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut…
• Hate will keep you alive where love fails
• We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
• There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.
• Few things worth having can be got easily.
• 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 can write my…
• Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?
• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you…
• Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of…
• Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
• The biggest lies we save for ourselves.
• You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and…
• It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.
• I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.
• There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have…
• We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me…
• I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough…
• I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

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