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I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
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the United States of America
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Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.
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Four years and everything was the same, except me.
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We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.
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Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.
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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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Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.
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Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.
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For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.
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You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
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A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
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No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.
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Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.
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Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
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If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.
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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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There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
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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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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
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I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.
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It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.
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