546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

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.

Anything that happens without witnesses never really happened at all.

Each hour became a process of taking a dull future and squeezing it into a dull past through the narrow slot of the moment.

Strangely it was social embarrassment that kept me from crying my eyes out, shouting at the injustice of it, kicking tables over: the idea that the strangers to either side might have heard my diagnosis and even now be listening and silently judging me. How terribly British.

Though I might walk where angels fear to tread, I try not to rush in like a fool.

I’ll lick a leper’s neck before I take a lung-full o’ your stench, Brother Row.

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.

The hard part wasn’t staying the course, it was turning from it. Too many steps taken, and leaving would cease to be an option – at least leaving and remaining whole. That was true of many paths perhaps.

I’ve become good at finding crumbs of comfort. Sometimes they’re all you have to eat.