Mark Lawrence quote: "Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too."

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE

We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE

Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u...
MARK LAWRENCE

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefie...
MARK LAWRENCE

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had bro...
MARK LAWRENCE

I value my integrity. Which is why it has a price.
MARK LAWRENCE

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?
MARK LAWRENCE

When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, be...
MARK LAWRENCE

The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.
MARK LAWRENCE

We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like...
MARK LAWRENCE

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.
MARK LAWRENCE

"Undoreth, we. Battle-born. Raise hammer, raise axe, at our war-shout gods tremble.
MARK LAWRENCE

A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight th...
MARK LAWRENCE

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same cl...
MARK LAWRENCE

Yes, I should grow up, and yes, I will, but there’s time for that tomorrow. Today is for living.
MARK LAWRENCE

Best she remember me as seven and not see me now.
MARK LAWRENCE

I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further o...
MARK LAWRENCE

I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his han...
MARK LAWRENCE

I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, ...
MARK LAWRENCE

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world w...
MARK LAWRENCE

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
MARK LAWRENCE

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t hal...
MARK LAWRENCE

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, b...
MARK LAWRENCE

We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at ...
MARK LAWRENCE

Hate will keep you alive where love fails
MARK LAWRENCE

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.
MARK LAWRENCE

I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blan...
MARK LAWRENCE

I’ve always found hitting a man from behind to be the best way to go about things. This can someti...
MARK LAWRENCE

When a course of action is forced upon you it’s best to accept it with grace and milk it for whate...
MARK LAWRENCE

To err is human, to forgive is divine... but I’m only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rathe...
MARK LAWRENCE

The way I’d put it,” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh dee...
MARK LAWRENCE

I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.
MARK LAWRENCE

It’s often said that cowards make the best torturers. Cowards have good imaginations, imaginations...
MARK LAWRENCE

Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince J...
MARK LAWRENCE

We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids ...
MARK LAWRENCE

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.
MARK LAWRENCE

Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the f...
MARK LAWRENCE

...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.
MARK LAWRENCE

You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.
MARK LAWRENCE

Makin once told me that a man who's got no fear is missing a friend.
MARK LAWRENCE

What's it going to take for you to open that door? Gold? Blood?"

"Your name and password....
MARK LAWRENCE

And what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to god...
MARK LAWRENCE

This is where the wise man turns away. This is where the holy kneel and call on God. These are the l...
MARK LAWRENCE

There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
MARK LAWRENCE

I’d be happier on a horse,” Makin said.
“I’d be happier on a giant mountain goat,” I ...
MARK LAWRENCE

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.
MARK LAWRENCE

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'b...
MARK LAWRENCE

They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
MARK LAWRENCE

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.
MARK LAWRENCE

A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
MARK LAWRENCE

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they...
MARK LAWRENCE

Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a...
MARK LAWRENCE

As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find t...
MARK LAWRENCE

Sometimes advance is the best form of retreat.
MARK LAWRENCE

Few things worth having can be got easily.
MARK LAWRENCE

If there’s one thing I can’t stand about licentious behaviour, it’s when I’m not involved.
MARK LAWRENCE

Trust is the most insidious of poisons. Trust sidesteps all of your precautions.
MARK LAWRENCE

The world eats good men for breakfast.
MARK LAWRENCE

We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids ...
MARK LAWRENCE

And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die...
MARK LAWRENCE

I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you wa...
MARK LAWRENCE

So what was that about?" Makin asked, striding up behind.

"They shot my idiot," I said.
MARK LAWRENCE

Tell me this," I said. "My world. It's not like the one I read about in the oldest books. When they ...
MARK LAWRENCE

...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.
MARK LAWRENCE, RED SISTER

We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids ...
MARK LAWRENCE, PRINCE OF THORNS

We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK

Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE

It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE

People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
VICKI LAWRENCE

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR

On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who vote...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR

In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign hi...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 I have quitted all forms of devotion and set p...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by deg...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictio...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Youth and patience are foreign to one another.
R.J. LAWRENCE

It's easier to be wise for others than for yourself.
R.J. LAWRENCE

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
LAWRENCE LESSIG

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...
D.H. LAWRENCE

[in the true mad north] of introspection,
where 'falcons of the inner eye'
dive and die, g...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D.H. LAWRENCE

The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...
T.E. LAWRENCE

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Music is only love looking for words.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We...
LAWRENCE SUTTON

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, ...
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more sui...
LAWRENCE BLOCK

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or m...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. LAWRENCE

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, a...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D.H. LAWRENCE

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
LAWRENCE BLOCK

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your he...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off...
D.H. LAWRENCE

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T.E. LAWRENCE

I am just going outside and may be some time.
LAWRENCE OATES

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly,...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our mann...
LAWRENCE STERNE

New WikiLeaks-provided e-mails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cas...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been ...
LAWRENCE KOHLBERG

I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Tr...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in ...
LAWRENCE BENDER

Does anybody remember, back in the depths of the recession of 1981-82, how President Reagan kept his...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady aroun...
LAWRENCE WELK

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great...
LAWRENCE WELK

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two compani...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. ...
LAWRENCE KUTNER

I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE

Mark Lawrence

Share:

Related

More Mark Lawrence