Mark Lawrence Quotes

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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

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.154, Penguin

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• I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

  Mark Lawrence

  Intelligent, Men, Design

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.155, Penguin

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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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.

  Mark Lawrence

  Years, Age, Wipe

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.137, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Growing Up, Thinking, Dawn

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.216, Penguin

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• No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

  Mark Lawrence

  Lying, Cutting, Half

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.61, Penguin

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• We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.

  Mark Lawrence

  Block, Men, Giving

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• Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

  Mark Lawrence

  Lying, Long, Secret

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.166, Penguin

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• Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

  Mark Lawrence

  Men, Thorns, Bones

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.15, Penguin

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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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  Running, Dark, Light

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.152, Penguin

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• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Disappointment

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• Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

  Mark Lawrence

  Valhalla, Faces, Sun

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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.

  Mark Lawrence

  Men, Clothes, Degrees

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.110, Penguin

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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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  Queens, Winning, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.20, Penguin

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• 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

  Journey, Evil, Looks

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.333, Penguin

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• When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

  Mark Lawrence

  Taken, Men

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• It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

  Mark Lawrence

  War, Men, Irony

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.243, Penguin

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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.

  Mark Lawrence

  Character, Humanity, Tragedy

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.200, Penguin

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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.

  Mark Lawrence

  Letting Go, Angel, Doors

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• The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

  Mark Lawrence

  Lying

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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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  Hurt, Pain, Boys

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.178, Penguin

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

  Mark Lawrence

  Sacrifice, Weak, Pins

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.66, Penguin

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• Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

  Mark Lawrence

  Dark, Choices, Choose Me

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.347, Penguin

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• Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.

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  Memories, Wind, Cocoons

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.154, Penguin

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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.

  Mark Lawrence

  Children, Revenge, Lying

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.21, Penguin

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