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    Mark  Lawrence
    “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

  • #2
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.”
    Mark Lawrence

  • #3
    Mark  Lawrence
    “She had the eyes of everyone who ever cared.”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

  • #4
    Mark  Lawrence
    “The world eats good men for breakfast.”
    Mark Lawrence

  • #5
    Mark  Lawrence
    “A man can drown in shades of grey.”
    Mark Lawrence

  • #6
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.”
    Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

  • #7
    Orson Scott Card
    “I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #8
    Orson Scott Card
    “Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”
    Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant

  • #9
    Orson Scott Card
    “Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.”
    Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope

  • #10
    Orson Scott Card
    “Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #11
    Orson Scott Card
    “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

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Mark  Lawrence
    “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

  • #14
    Mark  Lawrence
    “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

  • #15
    Mark  Lawrence
    “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

  • #16
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Makin once told me that a man who's got no fear is missing a friend.”
    Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

  • #17
    Mark  Lawrence
    “They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
    Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

  • #18
    Mark  Lawrence
    “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

  • #19
    Mark  Lawrence
    “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

  • #20
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.”
    Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

  • #21
    Mark  Lawrence
    “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

  • #22
    Mark  Lawrence
    “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

  • #23
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Some tell it that "sorry" is the hardest word, but for me it has always been "help".”
    Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

  • #24
    Angus Watson
    “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

  • #25
    Phillip Richards
    “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

  • #26
    Phillip Richards
    “We never left you, mate.’ ‘No, mate.’ Wildgoose said. ‘We just can’t run as fast as you!”
    Phillip Richards, Eden

  • #27
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Secrecy begets tyranny.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #28
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #29
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Marriage is a young man’s disaster and an old man’s comfort.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #30
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Bravery is just a different kind of broken.”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools



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