546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash.

Death was kind.” He drew a sharp breath. “But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.

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.

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.

I'll see if I can dream a witch tonight, yours or mine, I don't care. And if I do, this time I'm not running anywhere. I'm going to turn around and gut the bitch.

Not only is revenge an empty meal no matter what temperature it’s served at, it is also a meal that is not guaranteed to us outside of storybooks, no matter how valid our claim or desire for it.

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.

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 blood.Violence is the language of destruction, flesh so often the subject, fragile, easy to break beyond repair, precious; what else would be burn to make the world take note?

Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man.