Top 63 The Broken Empire Quotes
#1. When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.
Mark Lawrence
#2. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#3. It's the silence that scares me. It's the blank page on which I can write my own fears.
Mark Lawrence
#4. 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 the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.
Mark Lawrence
#5. When you've committed yourself to violence it takes an almost inhuman effort to stop short. It's one of those things that once you've started need to be finished, rather like coitus, interrupting that's a sin, even the priests say so.
Mark Lawrence
#6. One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'
Johan Galtung
#7. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#8. We rode in silence for a while and I wondered if men were the world's leaves. If as we aged the world filled us with its poisons so as old men, filled to the brim with the bitterest gall, we could fall into hell and take it all with us. Perhaps without death the world would choke on its own evils.
Mark Lawrence
#9. In the end it seems we're just toys, easy to break and hard to mend.
Mark Lawrence
#10. But words are only words and they seldom turn a person from their path unless they want to be turned.
Mark Lawrence
#11. What made my loss, my pain, any more important than everyone else's.
Mark Lawrence
#12. Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.
Mark Lawrence
#13. I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.
Mark Lawrence
#14. Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life - keep moving.
Mark Lawrence
#15. They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Mark Lawrence
#16. Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.
Mark Lawrence
#17. She whispered, Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and I know you can do it. You are the boldest, bravest, most noble knight in the Holy Empire.
Melanie Dickerson
#18. That's not a plan. That's a way to get a death so famously stupid that they'll be laughing about it in alehouses for a hundred years to come, Makin said.
Mark Lawrence
#19. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#20. 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 things than dead men. A dark time comes.
Mark Lawrence
#21. I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.
Mark Lawrence
#22. We weren't meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.
Mark Lawrence
#23. I took the Nuban's bow. I didn't trust the midget to be able to run down any thieves, and besides, I might want to shoot a circus clown or two. Just for laughs.
Mark Lawrence
#24. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#25. I kept my voice calm. It wasn't hard, I was calm. Anger carries less horror with it, men understand anger. It promises resolution; maybe bloody resolution, but swift.
Mark Lawrence
#26. I held to my anger, drank from my well of poison. These things are not good things, but at least they're mine.
Mark Lawrence
#27. The perfumes of lords and ladies tickled at my nose: lavender and orange oil. On the road, shit has the decency to stink.
Mark Lawrence
#28. The pain became my enemy. More than the Count Renar, more than my father's bartering with lives he should have held more precious than crown, or glory, or Jesu on the cross.
Mark Lawrence
#29. I followed but I held my tongue. I'd seen children tag after grown men throwing question after question, but I had put childhood aside. My questions could wait, at least until the rain stopped.
Mark Lawrence
#30. The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its earth.
Pierce Brown
#31. It's what I am, and if you want excuses, come and take them.
Mark Lawrence
#32. I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing are different things.
Mark Lawrence
#33. So there goes Jesus spinning power on its head again. His power was not in crushing but in being crushed, triumphing over the empire's sword with his cross. Mustard must be crushed, ground, broken for its power to be released.
Shane Claiborne
#34. 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
#35. We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.
Mark Lawrence
#36. 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
#37. But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear.
Mark Lawrence
#38. If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.
Mark Lawrence
#39. A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
Mark Lawrence
#40. 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
#41. Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they're not men at all.
Mark Lawrence
#42. 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
#43. Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.
Mark Lawrence
#44. It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.
Mark Lawrence
#46. Four years and everything was the same, except me.
Mark Lawrence
#47. But I respected his instincts as a killer and I liked the honesty of the man. And who was I to judge? I'd F'ed a necromancer and killed a Pope within the space of a week.
Mark Lawrence
#48. I swallowed darkness, and darkness swallowed me. Without light, without the beat if a heart to count the time, you learn that eternity is nothing fear. In fact, if they'd just leave you to it, an eternity alone in the dark can be a welcome alternative to the business of living.
Mark Lawrence
#49. Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.
Mark Lawrence
#50. A victim who believes himself anticipated at every turn is not only crippled by uncertainty but also easier to predict.
Mark Lawrence
#51. Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
Mark Lawrence
#52. The knife felt like hot iron in my fist. I hated myself for what I was going to do, and just as much for hesitating. I hated myself for the weakness in me.
Mark Lawrence
#53. Many men do not look their part. Wisdom may wait behind a foolish smile, bravery can gaze from eyes that cry fright.
Mark Lawrence
#54. Go fuck yourself,' I said. I kept it pleasant.
Mark Lawrence
#55. Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.
Mark Lawrence
#56. There are truths you know but will not speak. Even to yourself in the darkness where we are all of us alone. There are memories you see and yet don't see.
Mark Lawrence
#57. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#60. All men will dig their heels in if pushed enough. All men will reach the point that they say "no" for no reason other than opposition, for no reason other than the word fits their mouth, and tastes as good as it sounds.
Mark Lawrence
#61. 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.
Mark Lawrence
#62. In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives - the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.
Mark Lawrence
#63. 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.
Mark Lawrence
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