Mark Lawrence Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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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“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.”
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“Few things worth having can be got easily.”
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“something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.”
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“If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.”
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“Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.”
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“Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.”
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“Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.”
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“It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh”
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“Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.”
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“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.”
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“And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.”
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“For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.”
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“We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.”
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“Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles”
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“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.”
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“Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.”
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“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”
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“Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.”
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“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.”
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“Four years and everything was the same, except me.”
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“I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.”
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“Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.”
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“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.”
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“A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.”
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“If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.”
-- Mark Lawrence
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