Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court. Mark Lawrence More Quotes by Mark Lawrence More Quotes From Mark Lawrence I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour. Mark Lawrence balance views world 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 heart men thinking You're a Good Little Slave Mark Lawrence slave hate littles In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend Mark Lawrence toys break easy Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it Mark Lawrence coward use 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-up dawn thinking 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 block giving men 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 army running enemy 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 castles ugly kitchen 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-moments fear writing 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 silence sound children Hate will keep you alive where love fails Mark Lawrence failing alive hate 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 fear dream men Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction. Mark Lawrence bad-things ifs running 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 leader responsibility men 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 journey evil looks 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 cocoons wind memories 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 frozen alive moments 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 climbing rocks hate
