546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

The thing about the path less travelled is that it is often less travelled for a good reason. When that reason is not the dangers that haunt the road then it is the road itself. Sometimes it's both.

Come on!" Clera tossed Nona her shoes and dropped to the floor. "Mistress Spirit is the worst!" "I thought you said the Poisoner was the worst!" "They're all the worst when you're late!

what good is holy if it watches my friend die – not because she did something wrong but because her blood wasn’t good enough?- Nona Gray

A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.

We’re going to need a bigger army,” I said.

Sometimes advance is the best form of retreat.

I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

Still the music, the deep slow melody, the high and broken counterpoint, as if the mountains themselves had become the score, as if the glories of hidden caves and secret peaks had wrapped around the ageless majesty of the ocean and turned into the music of all men's lives, played out by a woman's fingers, without pause or mercy, reaching in, twisting, laying us bare.

We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding from the bud.