Four years and everything was the same, except me. Mark Lawrence More Quotes by Mark Lawrence More Quotes From Mark Lawrence 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 Mark Lawrence heartmenthinking You're a Good Little Slave Mark Lawrence slavehatelittles In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend Mark Lawrence toysbreakeasy Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it Mark Lawrence cowarduse I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up. Mark Lawrence growing-updawnthinking We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off. Mark Lawrence blockgivingmen There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it. Mark Lawrence armyrunningenemy You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes. Mark Lawrence castlesuglykitchen I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment. Mark Lawrence quiet-momentsfearwriting There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone. Mark Lawrence silencesoundchildren Hate will keep you alive where love fails Mark Lawrence failingalivehate There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Mark Lawrence break Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. Mark Lawrence feardreammen Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction. Mark Lawrence bad-thingsifsrunning You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead? Mark Lawrence leaderresponsibilitymen There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey. Mark Lawrence journeyevillooks 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. Mark Lawrence cocoonswindmemories You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive. Mark Lawrence frozenalivemoments 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. Mark Lawrence climbingrockshate It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see. Mark Lawrence castleseyepay
