“Nothing paralyses a man so well as choice.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Courtesy costs nothing, which makes it the ideal gift when you’re as cheap as I am.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Fuck that!" My turn to drop the scroll-case as though it were hot. "...your stewardness."
"'Highness' is the correct form of address when the steward is of noble birth... if we're being formal, Jalan."
"Fuck that, your highness.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“A practised liar gets good at noticing the failings of those with less practice.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, rarely let a friend down.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Your dreams are what will tear you apart. Every man is the victim of his own imagination: we all carry the seeds of our own destruction.” He tapped a long finger to his forehead. “It feeds on your fears.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Being on a galloping camel bears several resemblances to energetic sex with an enormously strong and very ugly woman.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Give him what he wants,” Jorg had said. “Then take what you want. Nobody is more vulnerable than in their moment of victory, and you know that whatever you do this man will never let you go while he lives.” I”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Steward, it's our place to protect you."
"If I die in your absence Prince Jalan is to be demoted to peasant. There, I should be safe enough now?”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“I’m an amiable drunk. Given enough time I always reach the point where every man is my brother.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Interesting,” I said, by which I meant “shut the fuck up.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“I warn you, Captain, God crafted these creatures for three things only. Passing wind from the rear end, passing wind from the front end, and spitting. They spit stomach acid so tell your men, and don't let anyone venture into the hold with a naked flame or you may find yourself the master of a marvelous collection of floating splinters. Also, we'll all drown.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“But truly? In my secret heart, Jalan? What drives me is that I will not let that bitch win. She has raised her hand against me and mine. She will die by my own hands. There’s no life everlasting for that one. No new world. This is a war, boy. My war. I am the Red Queen—and I do not lose.” She”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“It’s an odd thing to be sad about someone in death that you never really cared for in life and a thing that chooses its own moment to sneak up on you—usually”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Pride lets a man be skewered on the point of other people’s expectations.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“The things that time wants to keep, it buries.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Whilst running away is a great strategy, a good coward always takes the unfair advantage.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“perhaps we hurt for the lost opportunities, for the conversation that would have released all the unspoken words, for the way it should have been. “Where”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“A man’s first taste of the poppy gives him something glorious and wonderful, something that he strives to recapture with each return to the resin, but in the end he needs to smoke it just to feel human. Life is the same for many of us—a few scant years of golden youth when everything tastes sweet, every experience new and sharp with meaning. Then a long slow grind to the grave, trying and failing to recapture that feeling you had when you were seventeen and the world rolled out before you.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Never drink small if it’s at someone else’s expense.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“I had dug myself into Hell by not having the bravery to admit my cowardice. I resolved not to get into a similar situation again.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Your dreams are what will tear you apart. Every man is the victim of his own imagination: we all carry the seeds of our own destruction.’ He tapped a long finger to his forehead. ‘It feeds on your fears.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“The key if one wishes to avoid dwelling on unpleasant memories or inconvenient truths is to keep yourself occupied.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“A life lived well is one you’re not prepared to compromise just in order to draw it out for another day.” “Well”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“It strikes me that in this Hell a man of sufficient will, a man willing to sacrifice anything, might bend the world itself around his desire and create of himself whatsoever he wished. It also strikes me that I am not such a man. Snorri’s”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“It doesn’t take long in Hell before your definition of “good company” reduces to “not dead.” For”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“Interesting,” I said, by which I meant “shut the fuck up.” Why”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“A coward can forgive himself anything given the right excuse,”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
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“Child, I am taking you to The Autumnal Ball.”
“The . . . but . . . but . . . I don’t have a ticket.”
“Don’t worry about it.”
“But how—”
“Don’t worry about it.”
“But I don’t have a thousand dollars for—”
“I said, don’t worry about it.”
“But how can I not worry about it? Worrying is what I do! About everything!”
With an unexpectedly calm smile, Coco put I finger to my lips. “And that’s why you need a fairy godmother. For the rest of the night you’re not allowed to worry about anything. You have one, and only one, responsibility. To have a dream come true and have the sweetass time of your sweetass life. Do you understand me?”
― David Clawson, quote from My Fairy Godmother Is a Drag Queen
“Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.”
― Joshua Gaylord, quote from When We Were Animals
“I can't believe I have to say this. You there, dashing male secretary! Drop the frying pan.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Wildfire
“This book is divided into chapters, though not in the traditional chapter division of subject matters. This is because this book also serves as a photojournal of moments from Sadie's first few months of life documented here in dated photos. Thus subsequent chapters after the first are divided into chapters by the date of the photos taken - mostly weekly every seven days on the weekly anniversary (Tuesday) of her birth. Another reason that I have done this is because training a GSD puppy from the age of 4 weeks 5 days entirely on my own has been a “sink or swim” type of learning experience for me, and I would like you to experience with me the raising of Sadie (and the learning/realization of things as I learned/realized them) here in this photojournal if at all possible.”
― Yohai Reuben, quote from Sadie the German Shepherd Dog Puppy: How to House-Train your GSD without a Crate (Sadie the GSD)
“You are the sum total of all that we have been,” said the youngster who looked like my former self. “In a way we are the ones to execute John Dawson. Because you can’t do it without us. Now, do you see?” I was beginning to understand. An act so absolute as that of killing involves not only the killer but, as well, those who have formed him. In murdering a man I was making them murderers.”
― Elie Wiesel, quote from Dawn
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