Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books. Mark Lawrence More Quotes by Mark Lawrence More Quotes From Mark Lawrence Four years and everything was the same, except me. Mark Lawrence four-years four years 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. Mark Lawrence want desire men Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours. Mark Lawrence flaws forgiving return For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide. Mark Lawrence revenge lying children A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. Mark Lawrence nails together men Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak. Mark Lawrence pins sacrifice weak There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at. Mark Lawrence ignorance clever men Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt. Mark Lawrence teeth purpose hurt I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer. Mark Lawrence challenges answers If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice. Mark Lawrence cowardice feels running She'll never love you better than she loves her own children. Mark Lawrence love-you children Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies. Mark Lawrence weed tree men When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man. Mark Lawrence taken men If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it. Mark Lawrence flesh want years Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live. Mark Lawrence where-you-live distance pain I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more. Mark Lawrence desire home rose We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths. Mark Lawrence trapped wall Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature? Mark Lawrence bigs brother men 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. Mark Lawrence redemption struggle needs I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour. Mark Lawrence balance views world
