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    Mark Lawrence
    “Give me your bow,” I said to the Nuban.
    He frowned. “You’re going to shoot him?”
    The guard laughed, but there wasn’t an ounce of humour in the Nuban. He was getting to know me.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
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    George R.R. Martin
    “My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: abilities, song-of-fire-and-ice, tyrion-lannister
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    Mark Lawrence
    “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, Prince of Fools
    tags: character, cowards, flaw, humanity, madmen, sanity, tragedy
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: art, revenge, science
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    Mark Lawrence
    “There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
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    Mark Lawrence
    “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, King of Thorns
    tags: broken, clothes, die, empire, king, little, reborn, same, scars, thorns
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    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, Prince of Thorns
    tags: memories, past
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    Mark Lawrence
    “This is where the wise man turns away. This is where the holy kneel and call on God. These are the last miles, my brothers. Don't look to me to save you. Don't think I will not spend you. Run if you have the wit. Pray if you have the soul. Stand your ground if courage is yours. But don't follow me.

    Follow me, and I will break your heart.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns
    tags: jorg
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Hate will keep you alive where love fails”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Is this going to be one of those times when you pretend not to have a plan until the last moment? And then turn out to really not have one?- Sir Makin to King Jorg”
    ― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns
    tags: sir-makin
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Few things worth having can be got easily.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
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    Mark Lawrence
    “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, Prince of Thorns
    tags: fear, horror, silence
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns
    tags: memory, memory-loss
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    Mark Lawrence
    “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, King of Thorns
    tags: children, silence
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
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    Mark Lawrence
    “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, Prince of Thorns
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    Mark Lawrence
    “A Dark time comes.
    My time.
    If it offends you.
    Stop Me.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns
    tags: the-broken-empire
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    Mark Lawrence
    “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, King of Thorns
    tags: growing-up, limitations, tags-disappointment, the-broken-empire
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.”
    ― Mark Lawrence
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    Mark Lawrence
    “I’d be happier on a horse,” Makin said.
    “I’d be happier on a giant mountain goat,” I said. “One that shat diamonds. Until we find some, we’re walking.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns
    tags: caprice, horse
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    Mark Lawrence
    “When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. 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 loose them all.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: game, life-lessons, murder, war
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    Mark Lawrence
    “The biggest lies we save for ourselves.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
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    Mark Lawrence
    “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, King of Thorns
    tags: army, credo, pride, war
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    Mark Lawrence
    “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, King of Thorns
    tags: internal-conflict, philosophy, strength
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    Mark Lawrence
    “I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: options
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    Mark Lawrence
    “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, Prince of Thorns
    tags: fear
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: cowardice, fear, torture
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: humor, run
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: predictability, sacrifice, weakness
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
    'Pride is all I have.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: devil, evil, god, heaven, lucifer, pride, sin
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