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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
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Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped 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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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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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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Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.
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In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend
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Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.
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All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.
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Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.
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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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something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.
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You're a Good Little Slave
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She'll never love you better than she loves her own children.
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Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
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Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
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I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.
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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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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.
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I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.
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If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.
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