“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.” — Mark Lawrence Assassination 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… — Mark Lawrence Grief 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.… — Mark Lawrence Motivational 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… — Mark Lawrence Evil 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 Doing good Copy Share Image
“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.” — Mark Lawrence Fire Copy Share Image
“It's what I am, and if you want excuses, come and take them.” — Mark Lawrence The-broken-empire 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 Betray 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… — Mark Lawrence Apocalypse 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 The-broken-empire Copy Share Image
“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… — Mark Lawrence Language Copy Share Image
“In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives—the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.” — Mark Lawrence Die young 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 Bad idea Copy Share Image
“The Queen of Red watched on, with Katherine and the Silent Sister, all three of them studying me as if I were… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years,… — Mark Lawrence Age Copy Share Image
“Cowards should be treated with respect. Cowards best know how to hurt. Corner one at your peril.” — Mark Lawrence Respect 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 Bitterness Copy Share Image
“When you've committed yourself to violence it takes an almost inhuman effort to stop short. It's one of those things that once… — Mark Lawrence Coitus 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 Amber Copy Share Image
“Ravens! Always the ravens. They settled on the gables of the church even before the injured became the dead.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Bravery may be observed when a person tramples one fear whilst in secret flight from a greater terror. And those whose greatest… — Mark Lawrence Courage Copy Share Image
