Mark Lawrence, King Of Thorns Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

The way I’d put it, ” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.