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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.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Memories #Cutting #Dangerous
“We die a little every day and by degrees weâ€™re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Men #Clothes #Littles
“Few things worth having can be got easily.”
-- Mark Lawrence
“something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Broken #Remember
“If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Years #Flesh #Want
“Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Pain #Distance #Where You Live
“Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Men #Thorns #Bones
“Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Men #Court
“It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Flesh #Spirit #Corruption
“Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Dark #Choices #Choose Me
“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.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Years #Age #Wipe
“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.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Hurt #Pain #Boys
“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.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Children #Revenge #Lying
“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

#Running #Dark #Light
“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.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Character #Humanity #Coward
“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

#Queens #Winning #Men
“It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#War #Sacrifice #Winning
“We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Wall
“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

#Opportunity #Men #Obstacles
“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

#Struggle #Redemption #World
“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.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Weed #Men #Tree
“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

#Heart #Men #Thinking
“Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Hurt #Teeth #Purpose
“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

#Letting Go #Angel #Doors
“Four years and everything was the same, except me.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Years #Four
“I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Home #Rose #Desire
“Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Sun #Valhalla #Faces
“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

#Clever #Ignorance #Men
“A strange thing â€” nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Men #Together #Nails
“If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.”
-- Mark Lawrence

#Running #Cowardice #Feels

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