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• You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?

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  Responsibility, Men, Leader

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.13, Penguin

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• A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

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  Men, Desire, Want

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.275, Penguin

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• Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

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  Thinking, Men, Feel Good

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• I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

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  Views, Balance, World

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, Book 3)”, p.52, HarperCollins UK

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• Few things worth having can be got easily.

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  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.164, Penguin

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• And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.

  Mark Lawrence

  Hurt, Pain, Boys

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.178, Penguin

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• I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

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  Hate, Rocks, Climbing

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.197, Penguin

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• In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

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  Toys, Easy, Break

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.49, Penguin

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• We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

  Mark Lawrence

  Wall, Trapped

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• Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

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  Pain, Distance, Where You Live

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.50, Penguin

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• There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

  Mark Lawrence

  Struggle, Needs, Redemption

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.75, Penguin

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• The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

  Mark Lawrence

  Lying

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• A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

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  Men, Together, Nails

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.47, Penguin

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

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  Running, Ifs, Bad Things

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.25, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Memories, Men, Skulls

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.67, Penguin

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

  Mark Lawrence

  Break

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.43, Penguin

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

  Mark Lawrence

  Coward, Use

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.47, Penguin

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• It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

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  Eye, Castles, Pay

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• Hate will keep you alive where love fails

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  Hate, Alive, Failing

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.23, Penguin

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• You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

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  Kitchen, Castles, Ugly

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.89, Penguin

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• I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

  Mark Lawrence

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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

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  Challenges, Answers

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.290, Penguin

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• something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

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  Broken, Remember

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.45, Penguin

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• It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

  Mark Lawrence

  Flesh, Spirit, Corruption

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.22, Penguin

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• Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles

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  Opportunity, Men, Obstacles

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.51, Penguin

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