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Mark  Lawrence
“Every fortune-teller I ever met was a faker. First thing you should do to a soothsayer is poke them in the eye and say, ‘Didn’t see that coming, did you?”
Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

Mark  Lawrence
“If there’s one thing I can’t stand about licentious behaviour, it’s when I’m not involved.”
Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

Mark  Lawrence
“Two dozen--and yet you killed all but one?" The provost arched a brow and set her quill down again as if unwilling to record a falsehood.

"Dear lady, I killed them from youngest child to oldest woman, and when I was done I blunted three axes dismembering their corpses. I am Jorg of Ancrath--I burned ten thousand in Gelleth and didn't think it too many.”
Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

Mark  Lawrence
“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with science or religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And, for the most of it, the fiction works. We skim across surfaces, heedless of the depths below. Dragonflies flitting over a lake, miles deep, pursuing erratic paths to pointless ends. Until that moment when something from the cold unknown reaches up to take us.
The biggest lies we save for ourselves. We play a game in which we are gods, in which we make choices, and the current follows in our wake. We pretend a separation from the wild. Pretend that a man's control runs deep, that civilization is more than a veneer, that reason will be our companion in dark places.”
Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

Mark  Lawrence
“Courtesy costs nothing, which makes it the ideal gift when you’re as cheap as I am.”
Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

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