Hate will keep you alive where love fails Mark Lawrence More Quotes by Mark Lawrence More Quotes From Mark Lawrence Few things worth having can be got easily. Mark Lawrence Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you. Mark Lawrence dangerouscuttingmemories Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces. Mark Lawrence valhallafacessun 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. Mark Lawrence disappointmentmotherchildren When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives. Mark Lawrence lightdarkrunning No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie. Mark Lawrence cuttinghalflying We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars. Mark Lawrence clothesdegreesmen I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design. Mark Lawrence designintelligentmen Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator. Mark Lawrence feel-goodmenthinking You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all. Mark Lawrence queenswinningmen It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war. Mark Lawrence ironymenwar I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option. Mark Lawrence mayrunning Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me. Mark Lawrence angelletting-godoors Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones. Mark Lawrence bonesthornsmen Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me. Mark Lawrence choose-mechoicesdark A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages. Mark Lawrence wipeageyears The biggest lies we save for ourselves. Mark Lawrence lying Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw. Mark Lawrence tragedyhumanitycharacter Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving. Mark Lawrence life-lessonworldmoving Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles Mark Lawrence obstaclesopportunitymen
