Top 100 Mark Lawrence Quotes
#1. When a man can't trust his eyes what does he fall back on . . . and what does the choice he makes reveal about him?
Mark Lawrence
#2. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#3. Always take the money, Hennan offered with a small grin.
Mark Lawrence
#4. I had dug myself into Hell by not having the bravery to admit my cowardice. I resolved not to get into a similar situation again.
Mark Lawrence
#5. We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding from the bud.
Mark Lawrence
#6. Violence is the language of destruction, flesh so often the subject, fragile, easy to break beyond repair, precious; what else would we burn to make the world take note?
Mark Lawrence
#7. There is no evil, Makin," I said. "There's the love of things, power, comfort, sex, and there's what men are willing to do to satisfy those lusts.
Mark Lawrence
#8. You must mark in these things obviously. It's the fact you want to emphasise, not the subjective impression to record. What's the fact? - red little spiky stigmas of the female flower, dangling yellow male catkin, yellow pollen flying from one to the other. Make a pictorial record of the fact, as
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#9. You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
Mark Lawrence
#10. 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 have been easy to gut him then and there. Satisfying. But the need was too urgent. I felt pushed.
Mark Lawrence
#11. I held a world in my hand, and however I shook it, however the pieces fell, in whatever new patterns, nothing changed.
Mark Lawrence
#12. 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:
Mark Lawrence
#13. A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
Mark Lawrence
#14. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#15. 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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#17. Perhaps he just needed something to worry about again, so he could stop worrying.
Mark Lawrence
#18. Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn ... the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.
Mark Lawrence
#19. Whatever you do in dangerous situations, the main thing is to do it quickly.
Mark Lawrence
#20. You're going now?" Makin asked, putting down his bottle-in-a-basket.
"Well, unless you want to drink till we're all sunburnt and maudlin and then declare undying love for each other and part with drunken hugs?" I said.
Mark Lawrence
#21. There are few problems that won't go away if you ignore them long enough.
Mark Lawrence
#22. The stars are pretty but the space between them is infinite and black with promise.
Mark Lawrence
#23. Trust is the most insidious of poisons. Trust sidesteps all of your precautions.
Mark Lawrence
#24. Thor might be god of strength and war, Odin of wisdom, but he sometimes wondered if it wasn't Loki, the trickster god, who stood behind what unfolded. A lie can run deeper than strength or wisdom. And hadn't the world proved to be a bitter joke?
Mark Lawrence
#25. Sometimes I feel the need of an avalanche within me.
Mark Lawrence
#26. Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.
Mark Lawrence
#27. It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.
Mark Lawrence
#28. Fire isn't patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.
Mark Lawrence
#29. The air tasted of old magic, neither good nor ill, but of the land, having no love for man.
Mark Lawrence
#30. These were bankers we were talking about, and I owed taxes. They'd hunt me to the ends of the earth!
Mark Lawrence
#31. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#32. Pick your fights," Makin said. "I'll pick my ground," I said. "I'll pick my ground, but I'm not running. Not ever. That's been done, and we still have the war. I'm going to win it, Brother Makin, it's going to end with me." He
Mark Lawrence
#33. The Queen of Red watched on, with Katherine and the Silent Sister, all three of them studying me as if I were some puzzle that might be solved.
Mark Lawrence
#34. It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh
Mark Lawrence
#35. Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.
Mark Lawrence
#36. It strikes me that in this Hell a man of sufficient will, a man willing to sacrifice anything, might bend the world itself around his desire and create of himself whatsoever he wished. It also strikes me that I am not such a man. Snorri's
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#37. Every fortune-teller I ever met was a faker. First thing you should do to a soothsayer is poke them in the eye and say, 'Didn't see that coming, did you?
Mark Lawrence
#38. With an effort, the kind you use when confronting an unpleasant duty,
Mark Lawrence
#39. Perhaps we hurt for the lost opportunities, for the conversation that would have released all the unspoken words, for the way it should have been. Where
Mark Lawrence
#40. Nodded to the birds, a dozen of them in a black line, wise-eyed and watching. The town-square ran red. Blood in the gutters, blood on the flagstones, blood in the fountain. The corpses posed as corpses do. Some comical, reaching
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#41. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#42. I watched her backside as she went. I thought perhaps I wouldn't die if I could still find time to watch a well-crafted bottom
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#43. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.
Mark Lawrence
#44. I don't know what a bike is but it sounds painful.
Mark Lawrence
#45. Christ Bleeding," Makin said, staring into the valley below us. "How ... " "Topology," I said. "It's a kind of magic.
Mark Lawrence
#46. Each hour became a process of taking a dull future and squeezing it into a dull past through the narrow slot of the moment
Mark Lawrence
#47. The best liars always tell the truth - they just choose which parts.
Mark Lawrence
#48. Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles
Mark Lawrence
#49. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#50. Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they're not men at all.
Mark Lawrence
#51. After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.
Mark Lawrence
#52. I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, I'll be fucked if fear will.
Mark Lawrence
#53. Whilst running away is a great strategy, a good coward always takes the unfair advantage.
Mark Lawrence
#54. Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.
Mark Lawrence
#55. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#56. The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
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#57. Mountains are pretty at a distance, but my advice is to never let them get to be more than scenery.
Mark Lawrence
#58. I studied in the mathema, even pieced together a little of their door.
Mark Lawrence
#59. After all, getting everything you wish for is nearly as dire a curse as having all your dreams come true.
Mark Lawrence
#60. Darkness is patient, always waiting for its chance, and swift to take it.
Mark Lawrence
#61. Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.
Mark Lawrence
#62. Wait when waiting is called for. That's what Lundist used to tell me. But never hesitate
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#63. Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.
Mark Lawrence
#65. Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn't always mean that it's not the right direction for both of them.
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#67. I feel as though I'm playing a part like those mummers who travel the roads, only I don't know the words properly, or how I'm supposed to act.
Mark Lawrence
#68. 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 and foolish life.
Sorry.
Mark Lawrence
#69. It's always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.
Mark Lawrence
#70. IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy Convent steps onto the battlefield courage is often found to be in short supply. She
Mark Lawrence
#71. You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.
Mark Lawrence
#72. Snorri stood with one thick arm gripping the wagon bed, arresting its motion. 'Come.'
I hadn't the breath to tell him that's what I was trying to do. Instead I slipped out, lacing up what needed to be laced.
Mark Lawrence
#74. A man driving a wagonload of children in a cage doesn't have to state his business. A farmer whose flesh lies sunken around his bones, and whose eyes are the colour of hunger, doesn't have to explain himself if he walks up to such a man. Hunger lies beneath all of our ugliest transactions.
Mark Lawrence
#75. You look different," Snorri said. "I think 'even more handsome' was the phrase you were looking for.
Mark Lawrence
#77. If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.
Mark Lawrence
#78. Magic always struck me as hard and dangerous work...not that there are any words you can put before "work" that makes it sound attractive. Certainly not "dangerous" or "hard.
Mark Lawrence
#79. But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear.
Mark Lawrence
#80. And in the moments of rest, when we orphans faced each other, mud-cheeked, leaning on our forks, there's a camaraderie that builds without you knowing it.
Mark Lawrence
#81. Miana had been irritable all day in the carriage, but then if I'd swallowed a whole baby and it insisted on kicking the hell out of my insides I might be less than my normal tolerant self.
Mark Lawrence
#82. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#83. The desert is hot and boring, I'm sorry but that's pretty much all there is to it. It's also sandy, but rocks are essentially dull things and breaking them up into really small pieces doesn't improve matters.
Mark Lawrence
#84. No man's an island. Not even the ones that think they are. Especially not them.
Mark Lawrence
#85. Men who've made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they've chosen to follow.
Mark Lawrence
#86. Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man.
Mark Lawrence
#87. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#88. Sixty beats of a heart would be enough. If I could hold them. Let them know I came for them no matter what stood in my way. It would be enough. Sixty beats of a heart past that door would outweigh sixty years in this world without them.
Mark Lawrence
#89. Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.
Mark Lawrence
#90. They warned of taints lingering from the Builders' war, stains from their poisons, or shadows from the Day of a Thousand Suns.
Mark Lawrence
#91. Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really no vital difference between us. Two little dolls of conscious entities, squeaking when you squeeze them. And with a tiny bit of an extraneous appendage to mark which is which ...
D.H. Lawrence
#92. In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore - genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.
Mark Lawrence
#93. I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.
Mark Lawrence
#95. Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.
Mark Lawrence
#96. We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.
Mark Lawrence
#97. It's hard to carry a weight of news with none to tell and days ahead before you can release it. Good news weighs just as heavy as bad.
Mark Lawrence
#98. I would have saved them. But the lie tastes rotten on my tongue. Would anything have held William from me? Would anything have held my mother back. Anything? All bonds can be slipped, all thorns torn free. It's simply a matter of pain, and of what you're prepared to lose.
Mark Lawrence
#99. she was once rich and now was not. Perhaps to someone raised in luxury that was like starvation
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#100. If there's one thing I can't stand about licentious behaviour, it's when I'm not involved.
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