“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
“Is this going to be one of those times when you pretend not to have a plan until the last moment? And… — Mark Lawrence Plan Copy Share Image
“Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.” — Mark Lawrence Language Copy Share Image
“Men are busy dying from the moment they’re born but it’s a crawl from the cradle to the grave.” — Mark Lawrence Death Copy Share Image
Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to… — Mark Lawrence Feel good Copy Share Image
“Alaric waited. It’s a good enough trick. Say nothing and men feel compelled to fill the silence, even if it’s with things… — Mark Lawrence Good enough Copy Share Image
“The way to break the cycle is to kill every single one of the bastards that fucked you over. Every last one… — Mark Lawrence Children Copy Share Image
“Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones. The scars of the briar mark me, a… — Mark Lawrence Every man Copy Share Image
“Brother Row you could trust to make a long shot with a short bow. You could trust him to come out of… — Mark Lawrence Brother Copy Share Image
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the… — Mark Lawrence Agreement 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 Dark time 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
“Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away… — Mark Lawrence Hard lessons Copy Share Image
“Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was… — Mark Lawrence Experience Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.” — Mark Lawrence Blank page Copy Share Image
“North of Hardanger the children would run naked in warm rains like these. We don't sew our bearskins on until the sea… — Mark Lawrence Children Copy Share Image
“There’s something magical about a departed headache. It’s a shame the joy fades and you can’t appreciate not having one every moment… — Mark Lawrence Departed Copy Share Image
“I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing… — Mark Lawrence The-broken-empire 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
Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours. — Mark Lawrence Easier Copy Share Image
“She met my gaze and the light dazzled, but I wouldn’t look away. “Your choices are keys to doors I cannot see… — Mark Lawrence Dazzled Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design. — Mark Lawrence Argument Copy Share Image
“Weakness is a contagion, one breath of it can corrupt a man whole and entire. Now though, even with all the evil… — Mark Lawrence Weakness Copy Share Image
Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more… — Mark Lawrence Dream 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
“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
“Thorn stood without motion, for only when you are truly still can you be the centre. She stood without sound, for only… — Mark Lawrence Fear Copy Share Image
“Snorri stood with one thick arm gripping the wagon bed, arresting its motion. 'Come.' I hadn’t the breath to tell him that's… — Mark Lawrence Laced Copy Share Image
“The weakest spot in a good defence is designed to fail. It falls, but in falling it summons the next defence and… — Mark Lawrence Failure Copy Share Image
“I’ve always found hitting a man from behind to be the best way to go about things. This can sometimes be accomplished… — Mark Lawrence Best way Copy Share Image
“You're going now?" Makin asked, putting down his bottle-in-a-basket. "Well, unless you want to drink till we're all sunburnt and maudlin and… — Mark Lawrence Drunken 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
“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 Complete honesty Copy Share Image
“I wondered once if Corion had put that sickness in me, if I were the tool and he the architect of that… — Mark Lawrence Better person Copy Share Image
There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army… — Mark Lawrence Army Copy Share Image