546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

You can’t grow if you’re constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can’t grow, you’re not alive.

But children have resilience. Children scar and those scars remain across the years, but children grow too. Kettle grew around her hurts and learned to laugh again – learned wickedness as they taught her scripture – learned the swiftness of her body and the sharpness of her mind. She grew into a woman and learned to love and to be loved.

Moons might rise and fall, empires wax and wane, even the stars come and go, but there are constants too, and though the story of our kind is ever-changing it is also always the same.

There might not be a meaning to the world, or in it, but that does not mean that what we do has no meaning.

When you’re in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It’s a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Each hour became a process of taking a dull future and squeezing it into a dull past through the narrow slot of the moment – a moment, like each other, crowded with pain and exhaustion, and with a cold that crept around you like a lover carrying murder in her heart.

The eyes can be deceived. People can be deceived. A lie can be used for good ends as well as bad. An illusion that is never dispelled is a reality all of its own.

There is a tendency for characters who march on past their sell-by date to become caricatures of themselves – to tread the same ground, growing more stale with each step.

It’s what you do with time that makes it matter. I’d rather spend a year making new memories than a thousand wandering around in the same old ones.