Jorg Quotes

“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

“Do you know why the leaves change colour, Makin?" They did look spectacular. The forest had grown around us as we traveled and the canopy burned with colour, from deepest red to flame orange, an autumn fire spreading in defiance of the rain.
"I don't know," he said, "Why do they change?"
"Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there—that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“Sometimes a hurt is too big and we skirt around the edge of it, looking for our way in.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“There's is something about a fight that makes you forget your troubles. Mainly it's that all your troubles are suddenly very small in the face of new problems swinging your way with sharp edges on them”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns