Top 100 Mark Lawrence Quotes
#1. You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.
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#3. Wait when waiting is called for. That's what Lundist used to tell me. But never hesitate
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#4. Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.
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#5. Whilst running away is a great strategy, a good coward always takes the unfair advantage.
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#6. If there's one thing I can't stand about licentious behaviour, it's when I'm not involved.
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#8. Bravery may be observed when a person tramples one fear whilst in secret flight from a greater terror. And those whose greatest terror is being thought a coward are always brave. I, on the other hand, am a coward.
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#9. But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear.
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#10. The stars are pretty but the space between them is infinite and black with promise.
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#11. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. "Why
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#12. When a man can't trust his eyes what does he fall back on . . . and what does the choice he makes reveal about him?
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#13. And there it is, proof if proof were needed, that though God may mould the clay and fashion some of us hale, some strong, some beautiful, inside we make ourselves, from foolish things, breakable, fragile things:
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#14. Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father's bosom. Pawn takes king.
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#15. Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.
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#16. 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 a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.
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#17. The best liars always tell the truth - they just choose which parts.
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#18. My own opinion is that if I keep juggling, then all the balls will stay in the air and my comeuppance will never come down, however richly deserved.
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#19. Fire isn't patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.
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#21. For a moment I considered finishing the job with Katherine's knife, but it's good insurance to let ineffective jailers live.
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#22. Four years and everything was the same, except me.
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#23. Truth is an axe. Without judgement it's swung in great circles, wounding everybody,
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#24. It's hard to play the enigmatic prince of romance when the object of your affections gets to watch you shit into the sea twice a day.
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#25. Enjoy the world while you can I say. A shallow enough philosophy by which to live, but shallow is what I've got. Besides deep is apt to drown you.
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#26. What's it going to take for you to open that door? Gold? Blood?"
"Your name and password."
"My name is Honorous Jorg Ancrath, my password is divine right. Now open the fecking door.
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#27. Is this going to be one of those times when you pretend not to have a plan until the last moment? And then turn out to really not have one?- Sir Makin to King Jorg
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#28. Go fuck yourself,' I said. I kept it pleasant.
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#29. Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.
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#30. I've always found hitting a man from behind to be the best way to go about things. This can sometimes be accomplished by dint of a simple ruse. Classics such as, "What's that over there?" work surprisingly often, but for truly optimal results it's best if the person doesn't ever know you were there.
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#31. I'm not him because 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. I
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#32. The world is better shaped by freedom. Even if it means giving foolish men their head. At the heart of all things, nestled among Yggdrasil's roots, is the trick of creation that puts to shame all of Loki's deceptions. What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise. "Go
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#33. I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his hand, palm open. 'Free will has to be taken,' I said.
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#34. Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.
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#35. The breaking of day changes all things, Snorri. Nothing endures beyond the count of the sun. Pile a sufficient weight of mornings upon a thing and it will change. Even the rocks themselves will not outlast the morning.
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#36. Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.
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#37. Or some flat-bellied scow out of Aegypt, treasure-laden?
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#38. It cannot be helped." Gorgoth's hands closed into massive fists. "It's in his dena." "His dinner?
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#39. Jesu, but you're one hideous offence to the eye." I could tell he was going to kill me, so no point in being tactful.
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#40. Some men just want to watch the world burn." He grinned. "I'm the fire." "That you are, brother, and which of us is worse?
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#41. People who talk about the weather would be better served by admitting they've nothing to say but like the sound of their own voice.
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#42. Can you think of anyone less likely than me to listen to an angel, Snorri?
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#43. even the most sacred bonds could be broken under enough stress.
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#44. Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.
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#45. For all that time walking the path I had wanted to break and run, but that way lies madness: you don't run from terror, not if you ever want to stop again.
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#46. Angry at being angry - there's a worm that will eat its tail and no mistake. I should have Oroborus on my family crest.
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#47. Death was kind." He drew a sharp breath. "But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.
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#48. Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?
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#49. Clarity of vision is a thing much prized. I find when you turn that clear sight upon yourself - and see through to the truth behind your own actions - it might be better to be blind.
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#50. Never drink small if it's at someone else's expense.
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#51. Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where we roll in the bliss of ignorance.
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#52. She met my gaze and the light dazzled, but I wouldn't look away. Your choices are keys to doors I cannot see beyond.
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#53. Fear is a valuable commodity, it's common sense compressed into its purest form.
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#54. Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.
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#55. The comfort of shaving with your knife is in the knowing that it is honed to perfection.
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#56. The way I'd put it," said Makin, "is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.
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#57. There's something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
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#58. Some truths you can't speak. Some truths come barbed; each word would tear you inside out if you forced them from your lips. She -
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#59. Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life - keep moving.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.
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#62. I took him to be about thirty, but it's hard to tell with fat people: they've no skin spare for wrinkles.
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#63. Throw away too much of your past and you abandon the person who walked those days. When you pare away at yourself you can reinvent, that's true enough, but such whittling always seems to reveal a lesser man, and promises to leave you with nothing at the end.
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#64. Nights spent on mountains are not to be recommended. Nights where the dark is full of the sounds of dead men trying to climb up to where you're shivering under thin blankets, less so.
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#65. Tell me a story' began every seduction ever." "The
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#66. I think a weak woman would die in his bed. And a strong one might find it the only place she's been alive.
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#67. These lines are hooks, I'm fishing unknown seas.
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#68. I smiled and held my peace. Women are apt to lose perspective when fat with child.
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#69. Give him what he wants," Jorg had said. "Then take what you want. Nobody is more vulnerable than in their moment of victory, and you know that whatever you do this man will never let you go while he lives." I
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#70. A bit of pain's just what we need: to cauterize the wound, burn out the infection.
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#71. We're not memories, Katherine, we're dreams. All of us. Each part of us a dream, a nightmare of blood and vomit and boredom and fear. And when we wake up - we die." When
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#72. The world is changing, moving beneath our feet. We are in a war, children of the Red March, though you may not see it yet, may not feel it. We are in a war against everything you can imagine and armed only with our desire to oppose it.
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#74. I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.
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#75. Most of what a man is has been written by the time his beard starts to prickle. A babe is made of maybes. There are few crimes worse than the ending of something before its time.
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#76. All of us fractured, awkward collages of experience wrapped tight to present a defensible face to the world.
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#77. A hero attacks in the moment, a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food. I
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#78. Best she remember me as seven and not see me now.
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#79. And in my experience, any monster that talks in a human voice, is human. Or was.
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#80. Those young women who want a career ... They can have mine.
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#81. Conversations carry a momentum, there's a path they are expected to take, a cycle, a season, like the growing of crop. Take the rhythm of seasons away and farmers grow confused. Turn a conversation at right angles and men lose their surety.
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#82. I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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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#85. I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.
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#86. No sense of satisfaction, but my uncle's death had taught me that revenge is far less sweet than it promises to be. An empty meal, however long you take over it.
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#87. THERE IS IN every delicate thing, no matter how precious, nor how beautiful, a challenge. Break me. No
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#88. 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.
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#89. I should have kept my eyes on him, should have remembered where I got my mean streak.
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#90. Fear keeps us weak, fear of what we don't know, and fear of what we do know.
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#91. That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call.
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#92. I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.
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#93. Sometimes advance is the best form of retreat.
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#94. I fell asleep to the faint sounds of the nonsense doggerel Merican Pie.
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#95. Take more'n a key to get out of Central Prison. I could open all eight of these gates and wouldn't none of you maggots get halfway out. You'd need all these here. He patted the ring at his hip, making the keys hooked upon it jangle.
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#96. Cowards should be treated with respect. Cowards best know how to hurt. Corner one at your peril.
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#97. This is a bad idea."
"If you ever stop saying that, I'll know it's time to start worrying.
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#98. I'd be happier on a horse," Makin said.
"I'd be happier on a giant mountain goat," I said. "One that shat diamonds. Until we find some, we're walking.
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#99. Maeres's companion, though, he looked like the sort of man who would drown kittens recreationally.
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#100. Killing takes space. You need to move, to advance, to withdraw, and sometimes to just plain run for it.
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