546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

It is important, when killing a novice, to ensure you bring a force of sufficient size.

I’ve always felt that the placement of a man’s testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

Never having been troubled by a conscience before, I was far from sure what to expect of one, and so when for a minute or two each day at dawn a voice began to whisper to me to be a better man, I decided the shock of recent events had finally woken mine. My conscience had a name – Baraqel. I didn’t like him much.

I would have saved them.” But the lie tastes rotten on my tongue. Would anything have held William from me? Would anything have held my mother back. Anything? All bonds can be slipped, all thorns torn free. It’s simply a matter of pain, and of what you’re prepared to lose.

A strange thing – nails will hold a building together, but there’s nothing better for taking a man apart.

The breaking of day changes all things, Snorri. Nothing endures beyond the count of the sun. Pile a sufficient weight of mornings upon a thing and it will change. Even the rocks themselves will not outlast the morning.

Still, children hope in ways adults find hard to imagine. They carry their dreams before them, fragile, in both arms, waiting for the world to trip them.

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much – even when we have the eyes to see.

Time heals all wounds, but often it’s only by the application of the grave, and while we live some hurts live with us, burning, making us twist and turn to escape them. And as we twist, we turn into other men.