Quotes - Jack Kettle (Dublin, 07, Ireland) Showing 1-30 of 42

#1

“I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, I'll be fucked if fear will.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

tags: the-broken-empire

71 likes

#2

“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.”
― Mark Lawrence

tags: assassination, murder

50 likes

#3

“She had the eyes of everyone who ever cared.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

67 likes

#4

“The world eats good men for breakfast.”
― Mark Lawrence

44 likes

#5

“A man can drown in shades of grey.”
― Mark Lawrence

39 likes

#6

“Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

tags: the-broken-empire

58 likes

#7

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: ender-wiggin, identity, pain

470 likes

#8

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant

tags: grief, life, loss

338 likes

#9

“Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.”
― Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope

tags: enemies, friendship, home

184 likes

#10

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: happiness, humanity, mazer-rackham

552 likes

#11

“I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food.
If you are frightened
I am your friend.
I love you now.
And love does not end.”
― Orson Scott Card, Songmaster

tags: love, poem, song, tender

102 likes

#12

“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

169 likes

#13

“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I’m well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

tags: grief, honesty, sanity, self-deception, terror, worry

117 likes

#14

“Hurt spreads and grows and reaches out to break what’s good. Time heals all wounds, but often it’s only by the application of the grave, and while we live some hurts live with us, burning, making us twist and turn to escape them. And as we twist, we turn into other men.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

78 likes

#15

“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, Prince of Thorns

tags: broken-empire, prince, thorns

165 likes

#16

“Makin once told me that a man who's got no fear is missing a friend.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

62 likes

#17

“They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

tags: the-broken-empire

125 likes

#18

“Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where we roll in the bliss of ignorance.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

47 likes

#19

“Still, children hope in ways adults find hard to imagine. They carry their dreams before them, fragile, in both arms, waiting for the world to trip them.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

54 likes

#20

“Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

tags: the-broken-empire

68 likes

#21

“I swallowed darkness, and darkness swallowed me. Without light, without the beat if a heart to count the time, you learn that eternity is nothing fear. In fact, if they'd just leave you to it, an eternity alone in the dark can be a welcome alternative to the business of living.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

tags: the-broken-empire

35 likes

#22

“There are no happy endings for such as us, Chella. No redemption. Not with our sins. Any joy is borrowed—laughter shared on the road, and left behind.” He turned to Kai. “I have killed children, Kai Summerson. In such company you will too.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

14 likes

#23

“Some tell it that "sorry" is the hardest word, but for me it has always been "help".”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

tags: jorg-ancrath

81 likes

#24

“Dug looked for a flicker of humanity in her eyes. Nope, not a spark. “Do you know,” he said, “I’ve always thought that people are about as happy as they decide to be.” “What?” “Nothing.”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron

1 likes

#25

“I could see that Konny didn’t belong in the dropship infantry, but not because he was a bad person. He simply loved life too much.”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

1 likes

#26

“We never left you, mate.’ ‘No, mate.’ Wildgoose said. ‘We just can’t run as fast as you!”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

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#27