Fear Quote by Mark Lawrence

““Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.””

Mark Lawrence

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“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.”

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The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

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“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in…

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“I've been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would…

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There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see…

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“And that’s the riddle of existence for you. When to move and when to stay. Dwell too long and we become the prisoner of our dreams, or someone else’s. Move too fast, live without pause, and you’ll miss it all, your whole life a blur of doing. Good lives are built of moments – of times when we step back…

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“Fire isn’t patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.”

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“It's what I am, and if you want excuses, come and take them.”

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No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

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I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

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“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with science and religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And, for the most of it, the fiction works. We skim across the surfaces, heedless of the depths below. Dragonflies flitting over a lake, miles deep, pursuing…

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“A time of terror comes. A dark time. The graves continue to open and the Dead King prepares to sail.But the world holds worse…

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“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months now, I’ve lived in terror, fearing everything and everyone. I don’t want to be scared anymore. The only time I’ve ever felt safe is in your arms. I love you, and I just want to let…

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What an incredible drug fear is.

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“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.”

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“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its…

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When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood…

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“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for…

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It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a…

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“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns…

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“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle. Anyway, both of these impulses can destroy order, which comes out of both drives, and which is another human need I haven't yet fit into my scheme. So both have to be controlled. But in fact,…

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