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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I should have kept my eyes on him, should have remembered where I got my mean streak.” — Mark Lawrence 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
“In a duel, man to man, sword against sword, it can be a lack of skill that gets you killed. Often as… — Mark Lawrence Duel Copy Share Image
“The world is changing, moving beneath our feet. We are in a war, children of the Red March, though you may not… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things.… — Mark Lawrence Dark 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
“Give me your bow,” I said to the Nuban. He frowned. “You’re going to shoot him?” The guard laughed, but there wasn’t… — Mark Lawrence Humor 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
“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
“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 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
“The comfort of shaving with your knife is in the knowing that it is honed to perfection.” — Mark Lawrence Honed Copy Share Image
There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Ravens! Always the ravens. They settled on the gables of the church even before the injured became the dead.” — Mark Lawrence Ravens Copy Share Image
“I took the Nuban's bow. I didn't trust the midget to be able to run down any thieves, and besides, I might… — Mark Lawrence Clown Copy Share Image
Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature? — Mark Lawrence 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
“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
“The knife felt like hot iron in my fist. I hated myself for what I was going to do, and just as… — Mark Lawrence 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
“Climb a mountain, see the world from its highest point and a new man will climb down” — Mark Lawrence 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
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
“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
“We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding… — Mark Lawrence Beautiful writing 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
A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Climb a mountain, see the world from its highest point, and a new man will climb down to a world of subtle… — Mark Lawrence 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 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 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
“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
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