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“A man can drown in shades of grey.”
― Mark Lawrence

“There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.”
― Mark Lawrence

“The world eats good men for breakfast.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Sometimes the world slows and you notice every small thing, as if you stood between two beats of eternity's heart.”
― Mark Lawrence

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

“Sometimes I feel the need of an avalanche within me.”
― Mark Lawrence

“A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time and again on a small stage. We are memories, strung on storylines--the tales we tell ourselves about ourselves, falling through our lives into tomorrow.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.”
― Mark Lawrence

“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, King of Thorns

“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

“Man, dog, horse. With enough hurt we all sound the same.”
― Mark Lawrence

“And what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to gods than we know.”
― Mark Lawrence

“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.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2

“For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork.”
― Tennessee Williams

“The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.”
― Robert Pirsig

“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
― Blaise Pascal

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“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 Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“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 Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“Men who are certain of everything—well perhaps they're not men at all.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“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.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life—keep moving.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns