546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

To some men there’s no poison worse than a gift, none worse than a measure of pity. I would know.

Brother Gains wasn’t the cook because he was good at cooking. He was just bad at everything else.

What made my loss, my pain, any more important than everyone else’s.

If there’s one thing I can’t stand about licentious behaviour, it’s when I’m not involved.

I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, rarely let a friend down.

Disguise had always come easy to him. His childhood had served him well – when your sense of self is taken it grows easier to become someone else, when you sell affection it becomes easier to both understand love and be unmoved by it.

We’re not memories, Katherine, we’re dreams. All of us. Each part of us is a dream, a nightmare of blood and vomit and boredom and fear. And when we wake up – we die.

If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice. And if you must run to something, why not make it the empire throne? Something suitably distant and unobtainable. After all, getting everything you wish for is nearly as dire a curse as having all your dreams come true.

These lines are hooks, I’m fishing unknown seas.