Top 400 Mark Lawrence Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “The knowledge that he couldn’t possibly read all the books on offer put a peculiar pressure on choosing his next read.”

— Mark Lawrence

402. “I hated him in the way that only someone who can’t sleep hates someone who won’t wake up can.”

— Mark Lawrence

403. “After all, forward time travel is just an advanced form of waiting.”

— Mark Lawrence

404. “Your eyes might occupy only a tiny fraction of what you present to the world but they are what each stranger seeks when they meet you, as if needing reassurance concerning the person that watches through them.”

— Mark Lawrence

405. “With an endless library,” Livira muttered, “if you search long enough, you can find a book that agrees with just about any opinion you have.”

— Mark Lawrence

406. “What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise.”

— Mark Lawrence

407. “Would it really take a vengeful god to bring them all to ruin, or was it simply a case of handing sharp knives to toddlers and waiting for the bleeding to start?”

— Mark Lawrence

408. “None of it makes much sense, but what it’s hard to argue with is that there are a hundred and seven nudists heading back through time in a cave under a field not far outside Bristol, and I’m one of them.”

— Mark Lawrence

409. “Yaz shrugged. ‘People get like that if they live long enough to turn grey. They think they’ve seen it all and have answers for everyone. But they’re so distant from living life that they forget that we all have different paths.”

— Mark Lawrence

410. “Memory is the scaffold on which we assemble ourselves.”

— Mark Lawrence

411. “The person who finished writing it was very different from the one who started it.”

— Mark Lawrence

412. “All of us have a shell, a skin between us and the world that we have to break each time we speak to it. Sometimes I wished mine were thinner.”

— Mark Lawrence

413. “Throw any single life away as if it holds no meaning and how will your own life be valued thereafter?”

— Mark Lawrence

414. “I had only one man who I couldn’t order, who at the very last would twist my head off rather than obey against his instinct. Everyone needs somebody like that around sometimes.”

— Mark Lawrence

415. “I’m a good runner any day of the week. Scared shitless I’m world class.”

— Mark Lawrence

416. “Always kick a man when he’s down, I say. It’s the best chance you’ll get.”

— Mark Lawrence

417. “To sow knowing that you will not reap is an old kind of love, and love has always been the best key for unlocking the future.”

— Mark Lawrence

418. “Years crawl by but once they get behind you in a big old stack, it’s amazing how they seem to have done it in the blink of an eye.”

— Mark Lawrence

419. “A good book invites the reader in,′ Livira said. ‘The writer’s only half the equation.”

— Mark Lawrence

420. “A wise man told me that history will not stop us repeating our mistakes, but will at least make us ashamed of doing so.”

— Mark Lawrence

421. “People fasten on to hatred for reasons that have little or nothing to do with fairness or reason. And neither fairness nor reason is a tool that will prise them free from it.”

— Mark Lawrence

422. “A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable to move.”

— Mark Lawrence

423. “When your sole travelling companion is a seven-foot maniac with an axe, it can he unsettling to hear that he’s starting to believe the devil that whispers in his ear when the sun sets.”

— Mark Lawrence

424. “And what was Ara if not a piece of her heart?”

— Mark Lawrence

425. “We are victims of our first friendships. They are the foundations of us. Each anchors us to our past. The blows that drive those nails home are randomly struck, but they echo down all our days even so.”

— Mark Lawrence

426. “She felt her devils moving beneath her habit, their voices crying out for blood, and she found herself in agreement. The Book of the Ancestor says that for everything there is a season. This was a time to reap. A time for death. A time to die.”

— Mark Lawrence

427. “Men who are certain of everything – well, perhaps they’re not men at all.”

— Mark Lawrence

428. “Hope,’ said Demus, ’is an essential tool in any torturer’s kit bag. Hope is the thing that we will torture ourselves with after he’s knocked off and gone home for the night.”

— Mark Lawrence

429. “Sometimes all your words are the wrong shape and none of them will fit into the silence left when the conversation pauses.”

— Mark Lawrence

430. “There was no wheel of course, no golden gates, no hill, no dry lands. Just two brothers trying to right a wrong.”

— Mark Lawrence

431. “The mathematics of time don’t care about ‘now’, they just ask what value you want to set ‘t’ to.”

— Mark Lawrence

432. “Sometimes he wondered about that. About how a man might retrace his steps and yet still not return to the place he’d come from.”

— Mark Lawrence

433. “She was clean, fed, chosen, and special. And it was all her fault. And even if the library contained a million books and each book a million words, there couldn’t be among all that wisdom a single line that would convince her otherwise.”

— Mark Lawrence

434. “We are victims of our first friendships. They are the foundations of us. Each anchors us to our past.”

— Mark Lawrence

435. “They expect her to run. They know she will run. And she does. But at them.”

— Mark Lawrence

436. “So we’re literally changing the course of history?’ Demus shrugged. ‘Over a girl?’ ‘There’s a better reason?”

— Mark Lawrence

437. “But when we’re left to our own devices it’s not long before someone, often greedy for power and influence, takes it upon themselves to change the Ancestor’s teachings, just a little bit, but in a way that makes that person more important or special or allows them privilege.”

— Mark Lawrence

438. “People don’t want truth. They say that they do but what they mean is that they want the truth to agree with them.”

— Mark Lawrence