“As a child in poverty you never know that you're poor, the slums are the slums. They're home. They're what is. So… — Mark Lawrence Children Copy Share Image
“It’s full of hungry people. And hungry people are dangerous people.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an… — Mark Lawrence Memory Copy Share Image
“Still the music, the deep slow melody, the high and broken counterpoint, as if the mountains themselves had become the score, as… — Mark Lawrence Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
“We're fashioned by our sorrows - not by joy - they are the undercurrent, the refrain. Joy is fleeting.” — Mark Lawrence Dark fantasy Copy Share Image
“But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear.” — Mark Lawrence Father Copy Share Image
“Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father’s bosom.… — Mark Lawrence Parenting Copy Share Image
Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak. — Mark Lawrence Pins 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
“But I respected his instincts as a killer and I liked the honesty of the man. And who was I to judge?… — Mark Lawrence Jorg-ancrath 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 dropped the head and kicked it into the crowd. I say “kicked” but in truth it’s a bad idea to kick… — Mark Lawrence Bad idea Copy Share Image
“I studied in the mathema, even pieced together a little of their door.” — Mark Lawrence 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
“Strange how deeper the hole the stronger it draws a man. The fascination that lives on the keenest edge, and sparkles on… — Mark Lawrence Fall Copy Share Image
I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days. — Mark Lawrence About 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
“When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her… — Mark Lawrence Men Copy Share Image
“There are no happy endings for such as us, Chella. No redemption. Not with our sins. Any joy is borrowed—laughter shared on… — Mark Lawrence Children Copy Share Image
“I held my arms wide to the rain. I could feel it beat on me. I didn’t have so many years under… — Mark Lawrence Rain Copy Share Image
Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an… — Mark Lawrence Cutting Copy Share Image
