The Liar's Key (The Red Queen's War, #2)

by Mark Lawrence

Many favoured the bushy explosions that look like regular beards subjected to sudden and very shocking news.

Fear is a valuable commodity, it’s common sense compressed into its purest form.

I hadn’t anything to say to that, so I said nothing, and let the sea speak.

“You can have this coin, or you can have the most valuable piece of advice I own, something a wise man once told me and I’ve never shared.”

“Always take the money.”

what I need and what the world gives are often at odds.

I think it’s a disease. Being treated like a brave and honourable man becomes an addiction. Like the poppy, you want more of it, and more.