“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
There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends. — Mark Lawrence Break Copy Share Image
“How do you stand the pain?” I ask. “It’s just pain.” He shrugs. His white cloak, smeared with dust, sticks to him… — Mark Lawrence 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
“Tell me this," I said. "My world. It's not like the one I read about in the oldest books. When they talk… — Mark Lawrence Books 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
For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark… — Mark Lawrence Bloody 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 Courage Copy Share Image
Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison… — Mark Lawrence Assassins 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
“With an effort, the kind you use when confronting an unpleasant duty,” — Mark Lawrence Hard work Copy Share Image
“He broke off his explanation, seeing in his daughter's eyes the exact moment that a child first understands there are limits on… — Mark Lawrence Children Copy Share Image
“The desert is hot and boring, I’m sorry but that’s pretty much all there is to it. It’s also sandy, but rocks… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“He made his own silent screams then and tried to die. But I held him there.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“nodded to the birds, a dozen of them in a black line, wise-eyed and watching. The town-square ran red. Blood in the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentor what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And… — Mark Lawrence Better man 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
“The knife felt like hot iron in my fist. I hated myself for what I was going to do, and just as… — Mark Lawrence The-broken-empire Copy Share Image
“Makin once told me that a man who's got no fear is missing a friend.” — Mark Lawrence Fear 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
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
“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it. Heroes on the other hand, they make terrible torturers.… — Mark Lawrence Fear Copy Share Image
