546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.

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

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

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.

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

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

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

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