Mark Lawrence Quotes

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• Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it
• In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend
• Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
• Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.
• Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their…
• Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.
• I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.
• You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?
• 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.
• 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 the…
• Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread…
• 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 grow, you're not…
• I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them…
• All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind…
• It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to…
• It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.
• You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn…
• Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a…
• When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder…
• For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination.…

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