Mark > Mark's Quotes

“Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“She didn't know if the priests' poison was starting to infect her, or if this was just what growing up was - a series of compromises that twisted a child's idealism into something shameful.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars

“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Is a man a coward if he realizes that bravery is just a myth the old tell the young so they line up for the meatgrinder?”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“My love, my love
Remember the cries
When winter died for spring skies
They roared and roared
But we grabbed our seed
And sowed a song
Against their greed

And
Down in the vale
Hear the reaper swing, the reaper swing
the reaper swing
Down in the vale
Hear the reaper sing
A tale of winter done

My son, my son
Remember the chains
When gold ruled with iron reins
We roared and roared
And twisted and screamed
For ours, a vale
of better dreams”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“There is no love in violence”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“The dirty secret is that all governments are quietly republics—the voting is simply done with the sword or with coin. Everyone conveniently neglects to tell the lower class that it’s their coin, and their lack of swords.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth