546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

I saw the pity in him. A part of me wanted to take it, wanted to tell him how I’d struggled against those hooks, how I’d watched William die. A part of me longed to lay it all down, that weight I carried, the acid pain of memory, the corrosion of hate. Lundist.

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is ‘big’ a redeeming feature?

Watch out for that effelant. They’re green and like the taste of Vikings.

A million words won’t push the ice back, not even the breadth of a finger. But one word will break a heart, two will mend it, and three will lay the highest low.

I am pride! Let the meek have their inheritance – I’d rather have eternity in shadows than divine bliss at the price you ask.

You may be rocks but humanity is the tide and you only have to stand upon the sand to see how that contest concludes.

Never be so focused on picking a lock that you forget kicking down the door is also an option.

I cut from myself all the weakness of care. The love for my dead, I put aside, secure in a casket, an object of study, a dry exhibit, no longer bleeding, cut loose, set free. The capacity for new love, I burned out. I watered it with acid until the ground lay barren and nothing there would sprout, no flower take root. “Come.

There’s a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.