546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

I decided the best policy for the now would be to drink myself insensible and hope the morrow had better to offer. “The.

As a child in poverty you never know that you’re poor, the slums are the slums. They’re home. They’re what is. So I’d never felt poor. But Me-me made us feel rich. She carried smiles with her.

You’re a Good Little Slave.

When I was last here’ – he swung his arm at the rock and ice – ’all this was fields.

There is a purity in rage. It will burn out sorrow. For a time. It will burn out fear. Even cruelty and hatred will seek shelter, rage wants none of them, only to destroy. Rage is the gift our nature gives to us, shaped by untold years. Why discard it?

A practised liar gets good at noticing the failings of those with less practice.

Your dreams are what will tear you apart. Every man is the victim of his own imagination: we all carry the seeds of our own destruction.” He tapped a long finger to his forehead. “It feeds on your fears.

All men will dig their heels in if pushed enough. All men will reach the point that they say “no” for no reason other than opposition, for no reason other than the word fits their mouth, and tastes as good as it sounds.

It’s always a shock, when you’ve been hit by some calamity, to see the world go about its business with perfect indifference.