"There is something brittle in me that will……" — Mark Lawrence
"There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it."
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65 Quotes by Mark Lawrence
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There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
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Few things worth having can be got easily.
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As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that…
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Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
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