I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

Mark Lawrence

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Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

Mark Lawrence

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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 Lawrence

Mots clés the-broken-empire

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Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.

Mark Lawrence

Mots clés murder assassination

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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.

Mark Lawrence

Mots clés war army pride credo

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Weakness is a contagion, one breath of it can corrupt a man whole and entire. Now though, even with all the evil in me, I don't know if I could teach such lessons to a son of mine.

Mark Lawrence

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I’d be happier on a horse,” Makin said.
“I’d be happier on a giant mountain goat,” I said. “One that shat diamonds. Until we find some, we’re walking.

Mark Lawrence

Mots clés horse caprice

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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 Lawrence

Mots clés growing-up limitations the-broken-empire tags-disappointment

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A man can drown in shades of grey.

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When all you have to look at is white, given time you will see a symphony in shades of pale.

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