It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war. 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 dangerous cutting memories Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces. Mark Lawrence valhalla faces sun 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 disappointment mother children 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 light dark running 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 cutting half lying 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 clothes degrees men I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design. Mark Lawrence design intelligent men 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-good men thinking 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 queens winning men It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war. Mark Lawrence irony men war I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option. Mark Lawrence may running 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 angel letting-go doors Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones. Mark Lawrence bones thorns men Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me. Mark Lawrence choose-me choices dark 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 wipe age years 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 tragedy humanity character Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving. Mark Lawrence life-lesson world moving 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 obstacles opportunity men
