Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War, #1)

by Mark Lawrence

We all practise self-deception to a degree: no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There’s not enough room in a man’s head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns.

Deception

With Snorri troubles were always put front and centre and dealt with. My style was more to shove them under the rug until the floor got too uneven to navigate, and then to move house.

Trouble