Quotes by Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It’s not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Desire

Men

Want

And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can’t escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.

Boys

Hurt

Pain

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

Pins

Sacrifice

Weak

As a child there’s a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one…each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

Children

Disappointment

Mother

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

Coward

Use

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

Choices

Choose Me

Dark

Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.

Cocoons

Memories

Wind

I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they’re not wanted and getting in folk’s way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

Climbing

Hate

Rocks

I may be running out of options, but running out isn’t an option.

May

Running

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man’s heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

Heart

Men

Thinking

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Alive

Angel

Bad Things

Bigs

Boys

Break

Broken

Brother

Castles

Children

Choices

Choose Me

Clever

Climbing

Cocoons

Corruption

Court

Coward

Cowardice

Cutting

Dangerous

Dark

Design

Desire

Disappointment

Distance

Doors

Dream

Easy

Eye

Fear

Feels

Flesh

Frozen

Hate

Heart

Home

Hurt

Ifs

Ignorance

Intelligent

Leader

Letting Go

Life Lesson

Light

Long

Love You

Lying

May

Memories

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Quotes by Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It’s not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.

I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they’re not wanted and getting in folk’s way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

I may be running out of options, but running out isn’t an option.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man’s heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

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