Road Brothers Quotes

“They call me a monster and if it were untrue the weight of my crimes would pin me to the ground. I have maimed and I have murdered and if this mountain stood but a little higher I would cut the angels from their heaven. I care less for accusations than for the rain that soaks me, that runs down every limb. I spit both from my lips. Judgment has always left a sour taste.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“He looked once more across the ragged band before him, a family of sorts, pack rather than herd, a band of brothers who knew what lay at the core of him because they shared it, killers all. He looked down at the crimson weapons in his crimson hands and knew that moment of peace which happens when a thing surrenders to its nature.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“Darkness is patient, always waiting for its chance, and swift to take it.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“It didn’t happen for a reason, Alann. These things never do. Hurt spills over into hurt, like water over stones. There’s no foreseeing it, no knowing who it will touch, who will be left standing.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“I would have saved them.” But the lie tastes rotten on my tongue. Would anything have held William from me? Would anything have held my mother back. Anything? All bonds can be slipped, all thorns torn free. It’s simply a matter of pain, and of what you’re prepared to lose.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“Does she have some demonic sewing kit in there? Will the thread assault us? The thimbles hurl themselves upon me? Bobbins-"

"She said-"

"We'll die. I know.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“Disguise had always come easy to him. His childhood had served him well - when your sense of self is taken it grows easier to become someone else, when you sell affection it becomes easier to both understand love and be unmoved by it.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“Some men just want to watch the world burn.” He grinned. “I’m the fire.” “That you are, brother, and which of us is worse?”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“Not only is revenge an empty meal no matter what temperature it’s served at, it is also a meal that is not guaranteed to us outside of storybooks, no matter how valid our claim or desire for it.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“Conversations carry a momentum, there’s a path they are expected to take, a cycle, a season, like the growing of crop. Take the rhythm of seasons away and farmers grow confused. Turn a conversation at right angles and men lose their surety.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“She says the hunger for revenge eats a man up. She says killing doesn’t fill that hole. It just makes it echo.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“The man shrugged. He was younger than Alann had first thought. “Some men just want to watch the world burn.” He grinned. “I’m the fire.” “That you are, brother, and which of us is worse?”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers