546 Quotes by Mark Lawrence

I warn you, Captain, God crafted these creatures for three things only. Passing wind from the rear end, passing wind from the front end, and spitting. They spit stomach acid so tell your men, and don’t let anyone venture into the hold with a naked flame or you may find yourself the master of a marvelous collection of floating splinters. Also, we’ll all drown.

With sufficient gravitas even the wildest of lies can be made to sound plausible.

He said it would ward off evil spirits. That just left me the good ones to worry about.

You can look after this knight’s soul, Father. The sins of the flesh though – they’re all mine.

Oh come on, I just killed the fecking Pope. You are going to attack me, aren’t you?

The stars are pretty but the space between them is infinite and black with promise.

We weren’t meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.

Bollockeration.

We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with science or religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And, for the most of it, the fiction works. We skim across surfaces, heedless of the depths below. Dragonflies flitting over a lake, miles deep, pursuing erratic paths to pointless ends. Until that moment when something from the cold unknown reaches up to take us.