Quotes by Mark Lawrence

“When a course of action is forced upon you it’s best to accept it with grace and milk it for whatever you can get, right up to the moment the first opportunity to weasel out of the deal presents it...”

“I’ve never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.”

“I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.”

“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.”

“Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.”

“I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.”

“Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.”

“It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.”

“A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.”

“Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.”

“After all, that’s 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 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...”

“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 t...”

“The way I’d put it,” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.”

“Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.”

“Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.”

“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.”

“Thorn stood without motion, for only when you are truly still can you be the centre. She stood without sound, for only silent can you listen. She stood without fear, for only the fearless can under...”