Quotes by Mark Lawrence

“That's my secret and my shame. I'm Nona Grey, war is in my veins, and the screams of my enemies are music to me.”

“Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they are not men at all.”

“There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our ...”

“There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in is, deeper than our ...”

“It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas.”

“I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.”

“It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh”

“The holy stone looked for all the world like a small iron pineapple, its surface divided into squares by deep grooves, a tarnished silver-steel handle or lever held tight to the side. In ancient ti...”

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with science or religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And,...”

“After all, thats all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.”

“Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.”

“There's a problem with continually stamping down on the least sensible instincts that drive men to recklessly endanger themselves. Even the most reasonable and level-headed of us have only limited ...”

“The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry.”

“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.”

“At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn't all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins.”

“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 door...”

“The enemy of my enemy may be my friend of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.”

“...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.”

“You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.”

“Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. Its not until youve seen a red gaping wound and all the complex little bits inside a man all broken up and sl...”