“It’s full of hungry people. And hungry people are dangerous people.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war. — Mark Lawrence Irony Copy Share Image
“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.” — Mark Lawrence History Copy Share Image
There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends. — Mark Lawrence Bends 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 Copy Share Image
“Christ Bleeding,” Makin said, staring into the valley below us. “How…” “Topology,” I said. “It’s a kind of magic.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't… — Mark Lawrence Alive Copy Share Image
I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more. — Mark Lawrence Desire Copy Share Image
“Mountains are pretty at a distance, but my advice is to never let them get to be more than scenery.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She gave me a smile that left me wondering if I wanted to slap it off her, or kiss it.” — Mark Lawrence Smile Copy Share Image
“Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.” — Mark Lawrence Disasters 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
“A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The surgeons like to bleed a man, to let ill humours out, so that he may face the world anew. Perhaps they… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him… — Mark Lawrence Bishops 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 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
“The seris thought of human love as clouds coming together, sometimes brushing one to another, sometimes building to a storm, sometimes lost… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There is, in the act o destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build… — Mark Lawrence Beauty Copy Share Image
“And that’s the riddle of existence for you. When to move and when to stay. Dwell too long and we become the… — Mark Lawrence Doing good Copy Share Image
“To look into what will be isn’t unlike self-abuse. To watch yourself march through possibilities, to follow the truth through all those… — Mark Lawrence Hand holding Copy Share Image
“Cleverness builds ever more elaborate structures of self-justification… But in the end you know what is and what is not right. All… — Mark Lawrence 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
“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 Darkness Copy Share Image
“Geography is like history. History is the story of mankind since we first started to record it. The story and the understanding… — Mark Lawrence Geography Copy Share Image
“it remains for me to remind you that no matter what conditions you may face on your ranging, no matter what the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In the long ago, in the gentle days, Brother Grumlow carved wood, worked with saw and chisel. When hard times come carpenters… — Mark Lawrence Brother Copy Share Image
Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.” — Mark Lawrence Fire 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
“Tents are boasters, telling exaggerated tales of the weather they save you from.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“What made my loss, my pain, any more important than everyone else's.” — Mark Lawrence Death Copy Share Image
“I studied in the mathema, even pieced together a little of their door.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
