That's not a plan. That's a way to get a death so famously stupid that they'll be laughing about it in alehouses for a hundred years to come," Makin said.
Mark LawrenceTags: the-broken-empire
As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.
Mark LawrenceTags: growing-up limitations the-broken-empire tags-disappointment
A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
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They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Mark LawrenceTags: the-broken-empire
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 LawrenceTags: the-broken-empire
I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing are different things.
Mark LawrenceTags: the-broken-empire
I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.
Mark LawrenceTags: the-broken-empire
There are truths you know but will not speak. Even to yourself in the darkness where we are all of us alone. There are memories you see and yet don't see.
Mark LawrenceTags: the-broken-empire
Men who are certain of everything—well perhaps they're not men at all.
Mark LawrenceTags: the-broken-empire
There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.
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