Mark Lawrence Quotes

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

You're a Good Little Slave

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

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.

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.

Four years and everything was the same, except me.

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

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.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?

I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

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

All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

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 grow, you're not alive.

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.