“The comfort of shaving with your knife is in the knowing that it is honed to perfection.” — Mark Lawrence Honed Copy Share Image
“In battle though his hands grow clever, and you'd think him whole, until the din fades, the dying fall, and Maical wanders… — Mark Lawrence Mind Copy Share Image
“Some men name their swords. I've always found that a strange affection. If I had to call it something I would all… — Mark Lawrence Strange Copy Share Image
“It's good to steer a man in the direction he intended to go. It blurs the line between what he wants and… — Mark Lawrence Direction Copy Share Image
“I should have kept my eyes on him, should have remembered where I got my mean streak.” — Mark Lawrence Remembered 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 Time Copy Share Image
If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it. — Mark Lawrence Enough 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
“Clarity of vision is a thing much prized. I find when you turn that clear sight upon yourself—and see through to the… — Mark Lawrence Clarity Copy Share Image
“We rode in silence for a while and I wondered if men were the world's leaves. If as we aged the world… — Mark Lawrence Death Copy Share Image
“Although the fact that someone was lying face-down in the street gutter and leaking blood into it did detract somewhat from the… — Mark Lawrence Blood Copy Share Image
There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For… — Mark Lawrence Behinds Copy Share Image
“A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the… — Mark Lawrence Book Copy Share Image
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any… — Mark Lawrence About Copy Share Image
All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back… — Mark Lawrence Back and forth 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
“Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with… — Mark Lawrence Funny but true 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
“I took him to be about thirty, but it's hard to tell with fat people: they've no skin spare for wrinkles.” — Mark Lawrence Fat people Copy Share Image
A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. — Mark Lawrence Building Copy Share Image
“A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable… — Mark Lawrence Burdens Copy Share Image
“Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.” — Mark Lawrence Life Copy Share Image
Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only… — Mark Lawrence Men Copy Share Image
“Maeres’s companion, though, he looked like the sort of man who would drown kittens recreationally.” — Mark Lawrence Mind Copy Share Image
“Climb a mountain, see the world from its highest point and a new man will climb down” — Mark Lawrence Climb Copy Share Image
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or… — Mark Lawrence Beginning Copy Share Image
Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you. — Mark Lawrence Desire Copy Share Image
“The knife felt like hot iron in my fist. I hated myself for what I was going to do, and just as… — Mark Lawrence Knife Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.” — Mark Lawrence Memories Copy Share Image
“Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.” — Mark Lawrence Fear 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 Balls 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
“It’s hard to carry a weight of news with none to tell and days ahead before you can release it. Good news… — Mark Lawrence Good news Copy Share Image
“I’d be happier on a horse,” Makin said. “I’d be happier on a giant mountain goat,” I said. “One that shat diamonds.… — Mark Lawrence Caprice 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 Time Copy Share Image
“Many men do not look their part. Wisdom may wait behind a foolish smile, bravery can gaze from eyes that cry fright.” — Mark Lawrence Bravery Copy Share Image
“When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her… — Mark Lawrence Feminism Copy Share Image
Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I… — Mark Lawrence Angel Copy Share Image
“The bladder-pipe, a local Highlands speciality, is to music what warthogs are to mathematics. Largely unconnected.” — Mark Lawrence Highlands Copy Share Image
“I wondered if he was drunk. That's when I tended to speak profundities to the night.” — Mark Lawrence Drunk Copy Share Image
