Mark Lawerence > Quotes

“Some truths are hard to bear alone and dangerous to share. In you, Livira, I see a mind that is sharp enough to cut to the facts, and a truth that you have yourself exposed is harder to deny and easier to consider.”
― Mark Lawerence

“She kept her experiences to herself, however. It wasn't that she thought Meelan or Malar would tell on her, but secrets always seemed to escape if given space. One person could hold a secret tight to their chest with both hands. When it was two, or three, or four people if was as if that secret had to be tossed back and forth between them, creating many chances to drop it.”
― Mark Lawerence

“What does nostalgia mean to a child? An abstraction. A standing stone waiting for them in the mist. Walk a path across some decades, any path you like, and the word will gather weight. It will come to you trailing maybes and might-have-beens. Nostalgia is a drug, a knife. Again young skin it carriers a dull edge, but time will teach you that nostalgia cuts and that it's a blade we can't keep from applying to our own flesh.”
― Mark Lawerence

“It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy convent Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men.”
― Mark Lawerence

“An ocean of knowledge is apt to drown you long before it educates you. The art of learning was in selection, and while generations of librarians had ostensibly been cataloguing the collection to make it accessible, they had in fact been turning it into a vast puzzle, a lock whose key was held by those in power.”
― Mark Lawerence

“Some things when set in motion by the lightest touch cannot be stopped by a whole army.”
― Mark Lawerence