“No sense of satisfaction, but my uncle’s death had taught me that revenge is far less sweet than it promises to be.… — Mark Lawrence Death Copy Share Image
“The bladder-pipe, a local Highlands speciality, is to music what warthogs are to mathematics. Largely unconnected.” — Mark Lawrence Music Copy Share Image
“A victim who believes himself anticipated at every turn is not only crippled by uncertainty but also easier to predict.” — Mark Lawrence Doubt Copy Share Image
“Truth is an axe. Without judgement it’s swung in great circles, wounding everybody,” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Men who are certain of everything—well perhaps they're not men at all.” — Mark Lawrence The-broken-empire Copy Share Image
“War is a red haze punctuated by horror and death. It's a sequence of things that no human should ever have to… — Mark Lawrence Death Copy Share Image
“My own opinion is that if I keep juggling, then all the balls will stay in the air and my comeuppance will… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In a duel, man to man, sword against sword, it can be a lack of skill that gets you killed. Often as… — Mark Lawrence Dueling Copy Share Image
“If I think back on my successes, such as they are, they come as often as not from the simple exercise of… — Mark Lawrence Fitness Copy Share Image
We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the… — Mark Lawrence Clothes Copy Share Image
“The way I’d put it,” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of… — Mark Lawrence Gore Copy Share Image
“it never gets above a level of cold I call ‘fuck that’ – as in you open the door, your face freezes… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I feel as though I'm playing a part like those mummers who travel the roads, only I don't know the worlds properly,… — Mark Lawrence Journey Copy Share Image
“When you're moving in a dark and haunted forest the urge is for every step to be taken more quickly than the… — Mark Lawrence Every step Copy Share Image
“They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” — Mark Lawrence Teacher 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 Time Copy Share Image
“And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die—take your… — Mark Lawrence Fierce Copy Share Image
Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt. — Mark Lawrence Claws Copy Share Image
“This is where it starts. When they write the legend, this will be the first page. Some old monk will go blind… — Mark Lawrence Book Copy Share Image
“When you become a father, it changes you." Snorri spoke towards the fire’s glow. "You see the world in new ways. Those… — Mark Lawrence Father Copy Share Image
