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Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3) QUOTES

Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3) QUOTES

1 " We can’t be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

2 " It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

3 " You have my advice. Carry it with you. It won't slow you down. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

4 " Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

5 " Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

6 " Pretty armour doesn't make a warrior. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

7 " Two dozen--and yet you killed all but one?" The provost arched a brow and set her quill down again as if unwilling to record a falsehood.

"Dear lady, I killed them from youngest child to oldest woman, and when I was done I blunted three axes dismembering their corpses. I am Jorg of Ancrath--I burned ten thousand in Gelleth and didn't think it too many. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

8 " There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

9 " When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

10 " 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 (The Broken Empire, #3)

11 " I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, I'll be fucked if fear will. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

12 " Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

13 " If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

14 " 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 (The Broken Empire, #3)

15 " 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 (The Broken Empire, #3)

16 " Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life—keep moving. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

17 " 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 (The Broken Empire, #3)

18 " Clarity of vision is a thing much prized. I find when you turn that clear sight upon yourself—and see through to the truth behind your own actions—it might be better to be blind. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

19 " Men who are certain of everything—well perhaps they're not men at all. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

20 " You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive. "

― Mark Lawrence , Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)