Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones. Mark Lawrence More Quotes by Mark Lawrence More Quotes From 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. Mark Lawrence wantdesiremen Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours. Mark Lawrence flawsforgivingreturn 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 revengelyingchildren A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. Mark Lawrence nailstogethermen Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak. Mark Lawrence pinssacrificeweak 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 ignoranceclevermen Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books. Mark Lawrence confusingcharacterbook Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt. Mark Lawrence teethpurposehurt I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer. Mark Lawrence challengesanswers If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice. Mark Lawrence cowardicefeelsrunning She'll never love you better than she loves her own children. Mark Lawrence love-youchildren 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 weedtreemen 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 takenmen If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it. Mark Lawrence fleshwantyears Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live. Mark Lawrence where-you-livedistancepain I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more. Mark Lawrence desirehomerose We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths. Mark Lawrence trappedwall Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature? Mark Lawrence bigsbrothermen 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 redemptionstruggleneeds I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour. Mark Lawrence balanceviewsworld
