I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.

— Mark Lawrence

I’ve never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.

— Mark Lawrence

I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.

— Mark Lawrence

Keep still and your troubles find you. I might not have known much about the unborn, but I sure as hell knew about running!

— Mark Lawrence

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

— Mark Lawrence

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'' Pride is all I have.

— Mark Lawrence

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

— Mark Lawrence

Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time, and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.

— Mark Lawrence

Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they are not men at all.

— Mark Lawrence

Men who’ve made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they’ve chosen to follow.

— Mark Lawrence